8 day movement chalet style german cuckoo clocks

Waukesha clock restorer crazy about cuckoos

The European cuckoo, too — Galinsky hears that bird all day, every day. Whether it's the He estimates he makes another couple hundred clocks annually that he sells from his showroom inside a store built to look like those on the Swiss chalet-style ...

Keeping things ticking with the Maryland Clock Company

Time has been good to Rick and Doris Graham. Married for over four decades, their livelihood spans four centuries. They sell clocks at their family business, the Maryland Clock Company located in Davidsonville, and repair some timekeepers that date as ...

Best Of 2012: Recreation

Framed by the historic Guerneville Bridge at the heart of the Russian River resort area, Johnson's Beach and campground have been on old-fashioned family tradition under the redwoods since the early 1920s. Gertrude "Gertie" Johnson "In those days ...

Odd ornament is an alabaster antique

Answer: Invented in 1730 by clockmaker Franz Anon Keterer, the novel, pendulum-driven cuckoo clock quickly became a cottage-industry product of Germany's Black Forest. In 1850, Friedrich Eisenlohr designed the clock's first chalet-style case that has ...

How Top Watchmakers Intervene in Auctions

Updated Oct. 8, 2007 11:59 p.m. ET. See Corrections But Mr. Patrizzi knew how to examine the watches' intricate movements and identify whether they were genuine. At first Mr. Patrizzi himself amassed a collection of antique cuckoo clocks and ...