After several unsuccessful land-sea searches, I decided to suspend the operation and order replacement weights from Ronell Clocks. But cuckoo weights come in different sizes, and if they’re too ...

Return of the cuckoos Kate Hairsine08/31/2012 Ten years ago it was thought the famous Black Forest cuckoo clocks would disappear - sales plummeted and several old clockmakers went broke. Now, new ...

Cuckoo clocks of cat owners often come in pretty bad shape — cat hair and dander gum up the mechanism, the weights and chains batted around by cats who think they’re playthings.

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 ...

The clock took him three years to construct and cost about £10,000. "It's reasonably accurate - the cuckoo comes out on cuckoo time - but it's not necessarily Greenwich Mean Time," he said.

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 ...

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.