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 ...

The cuckoo clock.” So says Orson Welles as Harry Lime in the 1949 film The Third Man. Welles added those lines himself to a script based on Graham Greene’s original story. And though he ...

Yes, clock. One of the world's most interesting bird ... of that little door and crowing on the hour — there would be no "coo-coo" clocks. The clockmakers could not replicate the crowing sound.

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 ...

But drawing by far the most pre-sale interest, with several hundred online "hits", has been an elaborately carved cuckoo clock estimated at a mere $100 to $200. John Wolfe St Alban Collectio A ...

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 ...