Acting led to watchmaking lessonsSourced
The actor playing a clockmaker went to learn the craft himself.
Ben Ahlers plays clockmaker Jack Trotter in The Gilded Age. For the show's second season, he took watchmaking classes at the Horological Society of New York and kept an interest in watches afterward.
The role left him with a real-world skill.
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