If turning back the clocks tonight is a chore you would rather avoid, spare a thought for the staff at Buckingham Palace. Horological conservationists, as they are known, will spend more than 30 ...

King Charles has ordered a 40-hour clock change operation across royal residences, according to new reports. A massive operation will be underway this weekend as teams across royal residences ...

From sundials to atomic clocks, ... knowledge that accelerated early clock development in the 1700s. The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in London, was at the forefront of this technological rush.

However, spare a thought for the staff responsible for the clocks at Britain’s royal palaces this weekend who will be changing hundreds of timepieces in a task expected to take more than 30 hours.

Royal clocks to be changed as British Summer Time begins. A team of three horological conservators will work through the weekend to change more than 1,600 timepieces in the Royal Collection.

1,600 clocks owned by the royal family manually changed this weekend. The clocks moved forward by one hour overnight at 1 am on Sunday, marking the start of British Summer Time (BST).

THE Royal Observatory at Greenwich has lately acquired a new standard sidereal clock which possesses several peculiarities of construction. The one formerly in use was that made by Hardy, and ...