JFK Clock Repair

Modern Clock Repair Shop in the North Suburban Boston, MA area

A fully-equipped clock repair shop near (northeast of) Boston, Massachusetts.

Raised in the clock repair business since birth, and vocationally trained as a machinist, I am well-qualified to diagnose, repair, and, when necessary…. to perform complete mechanical rebuilds (with any required custom machining work done, by me, onsite in my own machine shop)…. to a variety of clock types that date back to the 1600s (the oldest clock I’ve ever rebuilt, was originally built in the mid-1600s). I can repair/rebuild many types of clock that were made way back then; ones that were made much more recently; and others that were made in the centuries in between!

Specializing in antique and modern clocks, including mantel; shelf; bracket; carriage; tambour; adamantine; wall; fusee; lantern; regulator; banjo; cuckoo; grandfather (tall, or longcase); grandmother; woodworks clocks; Jefferson Golden Hour clocks; and even many types of modern battery (quartz) clocks.

Formerly located in Stoneham and later Woburn MA, my location at the Cummings Center in Beverly, MA is convenient to much of eastern Massachusetts, including Boston; north suburban Boston; the North Shore; Cape Ann; and even southern New Hampshire. I provide “house calls” for grandfather, tall, and longcase clocks throughout the region. Mail-order repairs from across the USA, are welcome.

Please browse the menu at the top of the site for any information you seek, and please inquire if you have any questions. (Although also searchable above in the main menu, the links below are topics that I think you might find of interest, and are provided for your convenience):

To learn why your clock is behaving (or misbehaving) the way that it is…. and why it may need repair or rebuilding…. please see: Reasons for Repair – JFK Clock Repair
Is your clock “worth it” to repair? If you want to know my thoughts about that, please see: Is It “Worth It” to Repair? – JFK Clock Repair
Interested in a “house call”? Please see: House Calls, Questions and Answers – JFK Clock Repair
For information about me and my lifelong history in the clock repair business (my first words were “tick-tock”), with some amusing stories and anecdotes included (when I was a small child, my father pretended that I was a clock pendulum), please see: About JFK – JFK Clock Repair
To learn about my diagnostics skills, please see: JFK’s Diagnostics Skills – JFK Clock Repair
For information about my vocational training as a machinist, my machining skills, my fully-equipped onsite machine shop…. and how I combined my family upbringing in the clock business with my formal machine shop training…. please see: Custom Machining – JFK Clock Repair

Thank you for finding jfkclock.com. I will be happy to speak with you about your repair needs.

(A map that displays my location, as well as more information about my shop, may be seen below.)

Reviews

John is amazing, a clock whisperer! He is well worth the wait. John has helped me keep my grandfather clock ticking for ten years now--no small victory given how old clock is. John is honest, intuitive and cares about customer service, and keeping our old friends ticking. I can't recommend enough! And he's so personable as well. Always a lovely interaction!

Very responsive, helpful. Someone I would use. Informative, straight forward. Honest.

I have an heirloom Jefferson Golden Hour clock that suddenly stopped working. I live in Los Angeles so we did the transaction by mail. JFK completely restored my clock, and I've had it for a month and it's running like new. Thanks, JFK!

Just got my cuckoo clock back from JFK Clock Repair. very happy money well spent. Robert Salisbury Mass.

John did a fantastic job on my Pearl Grandfather Clock. He took the time to explain what the issues were and suggested the best way to get it up and running again. I found John very courteous and a real great guy to work with! I've since added a 2nd grandfather clock to my home and won't hesitate to call JFK again should it need any servicing.

What Does JFK Clock Repair Look Like?

You may be familiar with the Norman Rockwell painting which depicts a small store with watches and clocks “everywhere”, and an elderly man at his repair bench. This is an idyllic scene, but I’m not the elderly man (yet), and my retail/customer area has very little (if any) resemblance to the painting.

My workshop isn’t within view of the front drop-off/pickup and retail area…. but is on the same premises. It includes tooling as small as watchmakers’ screwdrivers and tweezers, bench fixtures and tools, and the like…. and as large as full-sized equipment and machine tools, some of which weighs a half-ton. Many clock parts are quite small, but when replacement parts must be fabricated, it can require medium and large sized machinery.

For such work, JFK hosts a fully equipped machine shop, fabricating equipment, and the various types of repair tooling that are required. So my actual repair shop is more of a machine shop than a clock shop, and therefore also has little resemblance to the Norman Rockwell painting.

In fact, by the end of a full day of clock rebuilds in the machine shop, I probably look nothing like a clock repairman is supposed to look like. I’m not the elderly man in the painting (yet)…. and on shop days I’m usually coated in coolant oil (and probably smell like it, too)…. my hands and face dirtied from metal shavings, sanding grit, and oil. And I generally have a million little metal chips stuck in what’s left of my hair.

Shop and personal appearances notwithstanding, I am well-equipped to diagnose, repair, and when required…. to completely rebuild your clock.

Please see the “About the Owner” section of the website for information regarding my history, qualifications, and experience…. and the “Repairs” section of the website, for information about the type of repairs that I’m able to do. If you’d like information about my machining capabilities and to see examples of my prior work, please see: Custom Machining – JFK Clock Repair

Thank you for visiting JFKCLOCK.COM. I welcome your inquiry.

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