If a ticking clock was once the heartbeat of the American home, the Seth Thomas Clock Company likely put it there. Few clockmakers were as prolific or long-lived. Seth Thomas was the Chevrolet of ...

Q: We have an old Seth Thomas mantle clock in our family that has been passed down through a number of generations. It was given to my mother by her grandmother, my great-grandmother who was born ...

Seth Thomas clocks were perhaps the most popular brand in America for most of a century. Their namesake, born in Connecticut in 1785, got his start working for other clockmakers.

It is still a readily recognized clock maker's name, although the company no longer exists. I suspect your Seth Thomas Gothic-style mantle clock is around 100 years old.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A forgotten beacon has been unstuck in time. The antique Seth Thomas clock hands atop the landmark Kingsley Building are turning again, greeting drivers approaching Eastown on ...

It was manufactured by the Seth Thomas Clock Company of Connecticut, at a cost of about $3,500, which is equivalent to about $92,000 today.