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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

HOLLAND — If you think there’s something cuckoo in Holland these days, there is. Former electrical engineer Dan Winebrenner is opening Holland Clock Co., a store specializing in new and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the neighbouring towns of Schonach and Triberg in the Black Forest region of Germany are two timbered ...