58 New England - Diwali Eid 2006 October 16-31, 2006 Will the good times tick on?

clocks. “This used to all be done by hand,” Master clockmaker Patel he explains. Bob Eaton, supervisor of the tool shop and upholds vanishing tradition Patel’s colleague since 1982, says that there are very few people left who remember how By MEERA RAJAGOPALAN it was before the automatic machines INDIA New England Staff replaced the lathes. One of them, Patel, is as Photo by MEERA RAJAGOPALAN good as they come, and the breed is vanish- HELSEA, Mass.— Bhupat Patel says ing, he says. Working with Patel, he says, it is the sign of the times – his floor, at “has been good.” Cthe Chelsea Clock Company used to Patel, who was born and raised in Kenya, employ more than 20 people, but now he is the head of repairs and takes care of trou- works with just six. “Everything has become bleshooting, designing and assembling of the Bhupat Patel (shown, above) is a more automized now,” says Patel, master 900 clocks the company churns out every master clockmaker for the year. The company, which specializes in clockmaker and chief repair specialist at the Chelsea Clock Company. He says 109-year-old company. The company spe- mariners’ clocks, handcrafts each clock. cializes in mariner’s clocks, which, with the Patel’s journey began in Kenya, a country the art is a vanishing one, with company’s patented mechanism, do not to which he still has very strong ties. “I’ve automation having taken over the employ a pendulum, but a special wheel never been to India, but I go almost every industry. The 109-year-old com- mechanism. The company has now diversi- year to Kenya,” he says. pany’s flagship product, a fied into the home and office clock market, Patel’s father, Rudabhai, owned his own mariner’s clock, is shown right. but still lures customers with its rich history. watch store in Kenya, and Patel says he When Patel joined the Chelsea Clock wanted to go to London for a better life. At Company in 1982, Patel remembers how 18, he left Kenya for London, and ended up everything was done by hand. studying clock making at the British In fact, as Patel walks around the tool shop, he points to a machine that shapes met- als which will later become bases of the Please see CLOCKS, facing page Image courtesy of CHELSEA CLOCK COMPANY

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