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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...