Moore Time

“[Customers will] have grandma’s clock that they inherited that’s been up in the attic for a while,” he said. “They’ll bring it in, and we have to tear it down and rebuild it and restore the case. We can do just little things or a complete job.”

The clock shop offers more than antique clocks: It also sells watches, decorative clocks and music boxes.

Moore Time has conducted business in Old Town Spring for 15 years following a move from its original location in Kingwood. Moore said he chose Old Town Spring because his business fits the nature of the eclectic shopping district well, and the location was closer to the center of his customer base.

The long drive to Kingwood was a chore for his customers in Champion Forest, The Woodlands and Spring, an issue that prompted the Moores to  move the shop to Old Town Spring.

Most of Moore Time’s business comes via niche shoppers who find it through search engines, but the store also carries items to service the foot traffic from Old Town Spring customers interested in buying batteries, globes, figurines and other collectible items.

The store sells distinctive wares ranging from an Italian-made figurine replica of the Ark of the Covenant to steampunk antiques.

“I’m not a walk-by business,” Moore said. “[Customers] will deliberately come to me. There aren’t that many of us.”

For Moore, clock making was a hobby that became a profession. He picked up horology—or the art of making clocks and watches—as a part-time job to put himself through college. However, soon after graduating from the University of Utah with a bachelor’s degree in accounting, Moore realized clockmaking was the career he wanted to pursue.

“Clocks are more fun,” he said.