I never even knew that positions such as Official Clock Master still existed – but it seems that they do in New York, and the current holder of that position is a man named Mr Marvin Schneider.  The New York Times has a simply amazing article about him, and how he quite cheekily managed to get his hands on some of the most beautiful large clocks around.  He paints a wonderful setting of changing old bulbs behind the frosted glass while the muted city ticks by below – it could be almost any time, a hundred years gone or more.  From when the clock was little more than a refuse pile, to his sparetime efforts to hastily learn horology, to the triumphant success of a working beautiful timepiece grown large.  He even recommends that should you wish to time travel, behind a glass and iron clockface is the place to do it. I recommend reading, or indeed listening to the audio-slideshow to hear the man himself.  I envy his wonderful job, but I do not begrudge him it – he so very deserves it, and the city and its clocks deserves him.  Thank you so very much, James – it is a lovely article.