August 2024 Update:
LA Times Interview

This just in! The Los Angeles Times has published an article about my grandfather's craft and my five-year search. "How two strangers found each other and solved the mystery of an L.A. watchmaker"

(Photo illustration by Jim Cooke / Los Angeles Times; Photos courtesy of the Allison family)

August 2024 Update:
Television Interview

The ABC Channel 13 (WHAM) interviewed me for an evening news segment in Rochester NY.
Replay available online.

July 2024 Update:
YouTube Interview

The National Watch & Clock Museum interviewed me for their Collecting Conversations series.
Replay available online.

June 2024 Update:
Podcast Interview

My Grandfather's Clocks
was the featured topic on the June 26
episode of Connections with Evan Dawson.
Replay available online or via podcast.

May 2024 Update:
Museum Exhibit

The Charles Allison Timepiece Collection will be on display at the National Watch and Clock Museum (extended!) through Sept. 30, 2024. Family lore reports that Charley always wanted his clocks to be recognized by a museum. Thank you to the NAWCC for giving him this posthumous gift.

More information available on their website: NAWCC Museum

July 2023 Update:
The World Clock (created 1952),
from the Charles Allison Timepiece Collection,
on display (for the first time in 70 years!),
won a First Prize ribbon at the 80th Annual
National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors Convention
in the Crafts Competition.
This one's for you, Grandpa.