In 2024, the collection was acquired from Maz and Roman Piekarski, who were closing their cuckoo clock museum in Knutsford, ...

Sometimes identifying and dating an antique seems easy, but it fools you. An unusual wall clock was offered at a recent auction. It was labeled “Friesland wall clock with automata, 1800.” Friesland is ...

This autumn, as the clocks fall back on Sunday, October 26, the world’s largest collection of cuckoo clocks will be chiming in Waterford. Curated in a specially created wing of the Irish Museum of ...

Two brothers with the world’s largest collection of cuckoo clocks are preparing to move their 750 timepieces back one hour this weekend - for daylight saving. Roman Piekarski, 71 and Maz Piekarski, 69 ...

Keeping time and the instruments that keep our time have long held fascination for scientists and design enthusiasts. Since the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei discovered that pendulums could ...

WAUKESHA, Wis. — Bill Galinsky has likely heard the call of the American cowbird more times than an ornithologist. The European cuckoo, too — Galinsky hears that bird all day, every day. Whether it’s ...

The sandstone cliffs surrounding Triberg should have holes in them from which large wooden birds spring each hour, for the town is the heart of Germany’s cuckoo clock industry. Kate Hairsine ...

Clocks are ancient devices because people have always needed to keep track of time. Around the world, sundials, water timers, candle clocks and hourglasses were the earliest timekeepers. However, once ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the neighbouring towns of Schonach and Triberg in the Black Forest region of Germany are two timbered gabled ...