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What started as a hobby has now turned into a storefront for Locene Clockworks.
Logan McClenny has a background as a mechanical engineer, but his interest in clocks dates back to when he was a child. He said he tried to fix a clock in his parents’ closet and got it working. It broke again and he fixed it again.
“That hobby turned into a side gig and the side gig got carried away and here we are,” he said from his new store in Grapevine.
Zooming in
For the past three years, Locene Clockworks has been operating in an upstairs space at Bermuda Gold and Silver at 402 S. Main St., in Grapevine.
He said almost every clock that is repaired has a story and a history that is connected to generations of families. McClenny said he has worked on clocks that are only two years old, up to ones that are 200 years old.
“It’s history, yeah, but it's legacy too because it’s not just like somebody’s history, it’s [a] family’s history, or this belonged to my grandma,” he said. “Every clock has a story and telling that story is so important.”
McClenny said he still remembers the cuckoo clock his grandmother had when he was growing up. He said they work on all types of clocks, from grandfather clocks, mechanical, battery or electric.
“We love it all,” he said of repairs. “Some of them kick our tails, but it’s the tail kickers that help us learn the most and then we get kicked a little less the next time.”
What else?
Locene Clockworks has more than 2,000 subscribers on its YouTube page and also shows repairs and projects through its Instagram page. McClenny said the goal is to make this an expandable, scalable business that will outlast him and keep the niche repair still around.
“It’s literally a dying art and at this rate, in the next 10 years, it could be dead,” he said. “There are so few people working on them. Nobody is teaching it, so we’ve developed an in-house training program.”
