Schonach is also home to the world’s largest cuckoo clock. Josef Dold, now 79 but still producing 15 or 16 traditional clocks a year, spent three years building one 50 times normal size.

Black Forest cuckoo clocks are mostly purchased by Americans, who, Haas says, tend to prefer the traditional styles. But with their modern designs, Haas & Rombach have managed to bait a new type ...

Here stands the world’s largest cuckoo clock, which has been in place for more than 30 years. At first glance, you might not recognize it as such, as its dimensions are more reminiscent of a ...

At Schramberg’s Car and Clock World in Germany’s Black Forest, a mannequin demonstrates the clock-marketing techniques of the 1950s. ( PETER_NEVILLE-HADLEY ) At Rombach and Haas in the Black ...