“Cuckoos will drive you cuckoo,” he said. Cuckoo clocks not only have the usual internal clock mechanisms but are also controlled by weights and chains. Then there are the baffles for the ...

G. Harris. During a visit to a local watch and jewelry repair shop to pick up a resized ring, I inquired about what might be wrong with my clock, which required extra weight on the timing mechanism to ...

They were not terribly well made, whereas the ones from the 19th century are all different, they’re all hand carved, the mechanisms in some are superb and some are cuckoo and quail clocks ...

In the neighbouring towns of Schonach and Triberg in the Black Forest region of Germany are two timbered gabled houses that are also giant cuckoo ... clocks — equipped with a weight-driven ...