I was going through some things in storage and my eye caught a box with tissue paper cradling something very dear to me — my Swiss chalet-style cuckoo clock. The tiny music box inside stopped ...

Why a cuckoo call, of all things, should be used to announce the time remains mysterious to this day. Apparently a clockmaker in the 18th century was working on an alarm clock with the crow of a ...

asked Colman Curran, a retired lawyer turned horologist, as he delicately attached a pair of hand-carved bone hands (“probably cow or horse”) to the dial of a wooden cuckoo clock. In January ...

My favorite was the cuckoo clock on the staircase ... I recall their collective chorus — the chaotic but somehow soothing rhythm of their ticks, tocks, whirs, chimes, sighs and gongs.

Expert artisans use traditional techniques to craft cuckoo clocks that stand the test of time. With a focus on precision and quality, every clock is made to deliver impeccable performance while ...

Few home-made timepieces though have come as near to wristwatch Nirvana as the cuckoo clock wristwatch from [Kiyotaka Akasaka], which we would venture to name as having won wristwatches.