LONDON — The world’s oldest clock and watch collection recently found itself facing a very contemporary crisis: homelessness, a victim of the scorching-hot London real estate market. The collection, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Founded in 1631, the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers is the oldest surviving horological institute in the ...

Next month, May 3, economist Deirdre McCloskey will speak at AEI about her new book “Bourgeois Equality” (on sale April 21). It’s the final volume of a trilogy — also “Bourgeois Dignity” and ...

Mark Purdy's life as a clockmaker isn't so much about telling time as it is about telling stories. From a Hopkins storefront bursting with wheels, gears, chimes and springs, Purdy repairs rare clocks ...

The elderly gentleman in the photograph is my grandfather, Leo P Ganter, arriving back from his annual holiday in Baden- Baden in Germany. It was some time around 1960. The photograph captures our ...

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