Which cuckoo clocks are best? Cuckoo clocks are some of the most intricate and beautifully designed clocks there are. Built with hours of care and patience, they are typically hand-carved over months ...

I love this wooden fan from Dutch designer Luc Van Hoeckel, who used the original Black Forest design of cuckoo clocks to create a self-propelling fan. Once the weight-toggles are dropped, the fan ...

It is one of the most popular souvenirs from Germany: the cuckoo clock. In the Black Forest you can find the largest specimen in the world — as big as a two-story house. This is part five in our ...

Sheri Geisler of Double Oak incorporated her wooden shoe collection into the Christmas decorations this year. A handmade wooden cuckoo clock was handpainted by Geisler's sister. A pair of Pennsylvania ...

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 ...

I was going through some things in storage and my eye caught a box with tissue paper cradling something very dear to me — my Swiss chalet-style cuckoo clock. The tiny music box inside stopped cooing ...

The 25ft tall water-powered structure houses a 3ft wooden cuckoo which pops out every hour to the sound of a pipe organ. It is powered by a complex system of cantilevers, counterweights and pulleys ...

There are few better ways of asserting your independent spirit as a hardware hacker than by creating your own special timepiece. Even more so if the timepiece is a watch, particularly in this era of ...