In both cases, the grandfather and cuckoo clocks can sometimes be a ... this DIY style grandfather clockis merely an outline of a clock painted on an old board with a working clock mechanism.

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 ...

The cuckoo clock.” So says Orson Welles as Harry Lime in the 1949 film The Third Man. Welles added those lines himself to a script based on Graham Greene’s original story. And though he ...

The cuckoo clock crashed to the kitchen floor with harshly brittle sounds of splintering old wood, clunks of the iron pine cone weights and the faint clang of the chime sounding the death knell of ...