Bill Galinsky is nuts for cuckoo clocks
Bill Galinsky works on repairing a customer's German 1970 Hubert Herr cuckoo clock. Galinsky, a master cuckoo clock carver and maker, repairs about 200 cuckoo clocks each year. He estimates he makes another couple hundred clocks annually that he ...
How The Wall Came Tumbling Down: Made In Germany
The unnatural division of a people in my adopted home was at an end. In the video below you'll I entered the watch industry by way of a publishing house in 1991. Over this near Since Henlein's death in 1542, Germany has progressed quite a way ...
The time lords
The shop itself contains hundreds of clocks — wood ones, metal ones, car and cat-shaped ones, all ticking away, filling the crowded Edmonton shop with bings, bongs, and the chimes of Westminster every hour. “Never a dull moment in “You run across ...
The Best Players at the World Cup, in GIFs
Why: Balotelli is the perfect kind of "Italian soccer crazy" you want at World Cup time. One of the best goal scorers in the world, solid defender, beautiful ball carrier, unselfish teammate, and just plain cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs off the pitch. He's a ...
I am… Thirunavakarishu Pillai, watch repair man
I learnt how to repair quartz watches from him,” explains Kannan. That came in handy when Kannan But if the customer is willing to bear the cost, I can repair almost any clock or watch, including cuckoo clocks,” he says with pride. Although Kannan ...
Dr George Daniels: 'Watchmaking god's' collection auctioned
Watchmaker Roger Smith, who moved to the Isle of Man in 1988 to work with Dr Daniels, said: "It is the equivalent of one man designing and making every single component of the greatest car the world has ever seen in his garage at home, right down to ...
Time is running out for Canada's last watchmaking school
The last surviving watchmaking school in Canada is a cacophonous testament to the march of time. Cuckoo clocks trill. Grandfather clocks chime. Stout-faced wall clocks mark the passing seconds a tick at a time. It seems like a cruel irony, but this ...