Preston Phillips sifts a hand through a pile of small metal pins that will be inserted into Lathem time-stamping clocks. Then he moves on to a grinding machine that spits out pieces used in the clocks to shift ribbons.

“There have been a lot of upgrades,” the longtime machinist says of the grinding device, a Davenport, “but it looks pretty much like it did in the ‘20s.”

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