The Clockmaker by Damn Interesting published on 2014-05-29T13:50:57ZIt was the middle of a cool September night in Munich, Germany. In an otherwise unoccupied auditorium, a man knelt on hands and knees chiseling a square hole into a large stone pillar. The lights were out, but a small flashlight dimmed with a handkerchief provided a pallid puddle of light. Whenever a truck rumbled past the building, he seized the opportunity to chisel more vigorously. In his three and a half decades he had cultivated many skills, including clock making, cabinet building, master carpentry, and stone quarrying.