Business helps keep hands of time moving

Butterworth Clocks has customers all around the world

By: Dave Thompson|May 12, 2026

|7 min read

Mark Butterworth, president of Butterworth Clocks, looks over the internal mechanisms – called movements – of a clock at his business in Muscatine. CREDIT DAVE THOMPSON

Mark Butterworth has a motto that has kept him and his business going for a lot of years: “Everybody loves clocks.”

That love of clocks has been at the center of almost everything Mr. Butterworth has done for much of his life.

The 79-year-old, who was once a physics teacher at Muscatine High School,…

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