SAN FRANCISCO -- Every day, like clockwork, antique clock repair technician Dorian Clair arrives at his shop of 30 years and gets ready for a day's work in San Francisco's Noe Valley neighborhood.

A steady humming and whirring fill the air of Art Fish's Corvallis workshop, occasionally interrupted by a chorus of brassy chimes. The tick-tock of dozens of clocks, like so many hearts beating in ...

Here at Dorian Clair Antique Clock Repair on Sanchez Street, the unmistakable, rhythmic sound echoes from nearly every nook and cranny of the shop, where hundreds of clocks from all over the world — ...

David Smith's path to fixing clocks was not an ambling journey through multiple professions before discovering his true calling; he had an inkling from a young age clocks were going to be his thing.