Nikolai Erngren is a former Swedish businessman and academic who left university life in Europe to become a woodworker in Laguna Beach. He makes unique, colorful pieces of furniture, cuckoo clocks ...

At Mount Congreve, Mr. Curran checked on the most valuable clock in the collection, an elaborate five-foot-tall cuckoo that he had unwrapped earlier and was sitting on the floor.

The dimensions of the world’s largest cuckoo clock are astonishing. The clockwork alone measures 4.50 by 4.50 meters. The “case” in which it is housed is so large that several people can ...

The clock was in Seattlee through Saturday, then headed to the plaza across from the Vancouver Public Library in Vancouver, B.C., for display on Monday, Nov. 17.

More than 800 clocks, of all shapes and sorts, cover the walls of his building, but it's the cuckoo clocks of which 91-year-old Fiorentino is proudest.