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 ...

HOLLAND — If you think there’s something cuckoo in Holland these days, there is. Former electrical engineer Dan Winebrenner is opening Holland Clock Co., a store specializing in new and ...

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.

A piece of kitsch, decorative wall piece, souvenir, kinetic artwork and timekeeper, the cuckoo clock remains a popular object in the home, even in this digitised, phone-obsessed age.

The country that made the cuckoo bird famous with its clocks is now worried the bird might follow the tragic path of the dodo -- into extinction. Nature and clock preservationists are teaming up ...