An unusual wall clock was offered at a recent auction. It was labeled “Friesland wall clock with automata, 1800.” Friesland is a section of Holland where people have been making clocks since the 1600s ...

So presumably after a significant period of reflection, he’s built an Alien themed cuckoo clock. Something of an off-the-wall choice, you might say, but he persevered with it.

And Mr. Boles, a lifelong collector who grew up with a cuckoo clock on the wall of his childhood bedroom, echoed the comment. “Clocks can sound a bit stodgy to some people, but cuckoo clocks ...

Cuckoo clocks at the cutting edge of street art? Unlikely though it may sound, German artist Stefan Strumbel has given a provocative twist to a Black Forest tradition -- and it is going down a storm.