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We don't plan on retiring. We
love the clocks. It's relaxing
listening to them at night.
— Marilyn Phillips
George Phillips is the owner of Phillips' Clock
Shop with his wife, Marilyn.
ornate timepieces are favorite gifts with
younger buyers purchasing the watches
for groomsmen gifts.
"Millennials are interested in them,"
said Marilyn Phillips.
Her husband doesn't just sell clocks
and watches: he is a 51-year member of
the National Association of Watch and
Clock Collectors, and pores over the
intricate mechanics of tiny timepieces
with the aid of small, glasses-mounted
magnifying lenses called "loupes."
Known in the clock trade as a
horologist, Phillips' love of clocks
includes the history of timekeeping,
including his knowledge of Boston
Watch Company in Waltham.
Customers like Julia Babushkina of
Nahant have come to appreciate Phillips'
attention to detail and refusal to let even the
most exotic watches defy his repair skills.
Intent on preserving the Soviet-era
watch bestowed on her father in the
1970s, Babushkina took the watch with
its inscription made out to her father to
Phillips, who assessed the type of repairs
it would need and the necessity to obtain
the right parts.
Undeterred, Babushkina and her
son tracked down a watch similar to
her father's and they plan to bring it to
Phillips to provide repair parts.
"We get a lot of challenges," he said.
With more than 300 pocket watches
The selection of pocket watches for sale at
Phillips' Clock Shop in Swampscott.
in his collection, Phillips can trace the
origins of American watch production
to the first 19th-century factory in
Waltham, and he talks with pride about
his Zappler clock, made in 1820, with its
ornate craft work and tiny pendulum arm.
His personal watches are a Rolex
Presidential and an Omega Stainless Steel.
"That's the kind James Bond wears,"
he said.
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