Nigel Barnes, a fifth-generation horologist, acknowledges that it is a “tall order” to learn to fix a clock in two days. But some manage it, he said. Nigel Barnes working with Seán Martin, who had ...

In and around Bengaluru’s Commercial Street, experts in a centuries-old trade tinker with tiny mechanisms in rooms filled with the quiet ticking and the occasional hoot from a cuckoo clock. These are ...