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With over sixty years combined experience at the
bench restoring antique clocks, the owners can repair
any clock. Estimates are free. We ask only that you leave the clock with us for a few days.
In addition, The Clockery provides the following specialized services:
House Calls
We make house calls for grandfather clocks and permanently
installed architectural clocks in the following southern Fairfield
County towns:
Greenwich, Stamford, Darien, Norwalk, Westport, Southport, Fairfield,
New Canaan, Wilton, Weston, Easton, and Ridgefield; as well as Pound
Ridge and Bedford Village, New York.
Restoration Work
Clockmaking is practiced much the way it was a hundred
years ago. We rely on the skills of many talented people to perform
the varied crafts required for proper antique clock restoration.
One of the most important advantages of dealing with an established
shop like The Clockery is the long time relationships we have cultivated
with some of the most talented craftspeople in the country. Some
of these specialties include:
- Dial retouching and painting
- Case repairs and refinishing
- Reverse glass painting
- Guilding and metal polishing
- Beveled and convex glass
Tower Clock Restoration
Since 1998 The Clockery has been engaged in partnership
with Ian Pomfret restoring large antique tower clocks, street clocks,
and public clocks in western Connecticut and the mid-Hudson New
York area. Some of the historic clocks we have restored include
those at:
- Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT
- Scoville Public Library, Salisbury CT
- Plumb Public Library, Shelton CT
- Christ Church, Canaan CT
- First United Methodist Church, Mt. Vernon, NY
- Southport Congregational Church, Southport, CT
- Milford Town Hall, Milford, CT
Tower clock services include:
- Evaluation and condition reports
- Complete detailed restoration
- Fabrication of missing or broken parts
- Design and fabrication of custom winding systems
- Design and installation of custom night silence controls
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