![]() The clocksmith says it’s an 1874 Gale Astronomical Calendar with secondary dials that reflect not only the phases of the moon and the date but a technological marvel: the time of each day’s sunrise and sunset. Wind Dancer steps to the shop’s eastern wall and eyes a mounted beauty that had long belonged to late Sonoma County Judge Hilliard Comstock. ![]() Typically, a clock comes accompanied by a story. “Every week, I see something that I haven’t seen before,” he said. Today his heart races as if over-wound each time someone carries a new challenge through the door of the Clocksmith Cyrus shop on Sonoma Highway. ![]() Though fascinated since childhood by the science and precision and artistry that goes into a well-made clock, Wind Dancer, 69, didn’t set out to become a horologist until just five years ago. He previously wore the prestigious name Cy Eaton III but discarded it decades ago, along with many ties to the Cleveland-centered family led by his late grandfather, the industrialist and financier Cyrus Stephen Eaton. “There are very few things that were made in, say, 1830, that can still function in 2015,” said Wind Dancer. It’s the top of the hour at the Rincon Valley shop of Cyrus Wind Dancer, a former Peace Corps volunteer, hippie, car mechanic, homebuilder, ?whistle-blower and Wine Country masseur who now dedicates nearly every waking minute to the repair and preservation of the charming anachronism that is the fine, old clock. ![]()
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