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clocks in the buyers home. That s a service offered by most clockmakers, and he contracts with the store to do the work.
He also does maintenance and repairs, both in and out of warranty.
He laughs when he describes the request he gets from most potential customers: “It just needs a squirt of oil—just a squirt of oil.”
That’s not “just what a broken clock needs,” Mr. Tucker says, cautioning that particularly damaging is the miracle cure: a clockowner-administered squirt of WD-40. “It works fine — for about a week. Then the lubricant gets gummy from the dust inside and really fouls up the works.” Not only that, he adds, the chemicals in the lubricant often stain the clock’s movement and the wood of the case.
He’s worked on more than 600 clocks, according to the meticulous log book he keeps. “I’ve never found one that ‘just needed cleaning’,” he says, chuckling again.
Mr. Tucker notes that most people take far less care of their clocks than of their cars, yet expect the clock to run perfectly 24 hours a day,
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