18. KEEPING SAN FRANCISCO'S TIME: Horologist Dorian Clair on 72 years of repairing antique clocks, saving the Ferry Building clock tower, and doing only what's good for the clock
In this episode of The Trades Show, host Briana Ottoboni sits down with Dorian Clair, a horologist and antique clock restorer who has been repairing clocks for 72 years and keeps San Francisco's tower clocks running, inside his Sanchez Street shop in Noe Valley. Their conversation traces the whole arc — from the broken Westclox alarm clock a neighbor's mother gave him on his eighth birthday in 1954, to the Navy submarine where he kept fixing watches, to the storefront he has run for 39 years and still describes, when he leaves the house each morning, as going to play. Dorian walks through how…
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