Nigel Barnes, a fifth-generation horologist, acknowledges that it is a “tall order” to learn to fix a clock in two days. But some manage it, he said. Nigel Barnes working with Seán Martin, who had ...

MERTON, Wis. -- If it were easy anyone could do it, but only a few still do. They’re Wisconsin’s remaining horologists. Horology is the ancient art or science of making – or fixing – timepieces.