Tick tock, tick tock...it was only a few years ago when some trend watchers declared that any timepiece other than digital was certainly old-fashioned if not obsolete. Well, extinction didn't happen.

Have you ever noticed that despite our high-tech gadgets and digital screens, there's something irresistibly charming about a ...

These days, we watch the year change on a TV screen. In years past, the new year was greeted by a chiming grandfather clock. The grandfather clock, invented about 1670, was originally known as a tall ...