Eager to attempt the repair and learn how the cuckoo whistle is accomplished, I studied a library book called “Handbook of Watch and Clock Repair,” by H. G. Harris. During a visit to a local watch and ...

The harder part is figuring out what's wrong, he said. And then after making the repair, a clock repairman has to make sure everything is back in the right order. Adjustments and fine-tuning have ...

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.

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 mechanism ...

If German clockmakers in the early 18th century had been successful in their first desire — a rooster popping out of that little door and crowing on the hour — there would be no "coo-coo" clocks.