An autobiographical account traces the author's early years, training, and long career in American clockmaking, explaining how the craft shifted from handwork and wooden movements to mechanized production and metal (brass) movements. It combines personal narrative of inventions, business ventures, travel to sell clocks, and financial reversals with practical descriptions of case- and movement-making, sales practices, and market expansion domestically and abroad. The narrative reflects on competition, partnerships, and reputation, and offers technical and commercial insight into how a regional cottage industry became a systematized, export-oriented manufacturing trade.