hunting style cuckoo clock

Widow Margaret Tyler, 71, is a retired telephonist who has four grown-up ...

My favourite is a table clock carved from one piece of wood. It has two hares on top with a fox at the bottom staring up at them. We chased this clock for over a year until we found it. Hunting for clocks is exciting. We have picked them up from all ...

Waukesha clock restorer crazy about cuckoos

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 cuckoo clocks. His Christmas rush recently finished, Galinsky took time from repairing a 1970 ...

'The Italians,' by John Hooper

In it, Harry Lime compares the tumultuous 30 years of Borgia rule in Italy, which produced the Renaissance and some of its greatest artists, to the 500 years of democracy and peace in Switzerland, which, he claims, produced only the cuckoo clock. It's ...

Rising Franc Upends Daily Life in Swiss Borderlands

Some residents of Constance are growing irritated at the flood of Swiss bargain hunters, with shops increasingly catering to those shoppers rather than locals, says Mr. Burchardt, the mayor. “Constance doesn't want to be the cheap city of Switzerland ...

Dream Space: Clockmaker Marks Time at Home

If Erik Ulfers can't sleep, he won't just lie there staring at the clock. He's more likely to take one apart piece by piece and rebuild it. All he'd have to do is walk down the hall into his clock workshop—a 170-square-foot studio he built onto the ...

Cuckoo Journalism for a Tweetable Time

Soon enough, Mr. Hughes seems to have concluded that his fuddy-duddy journal had no future in the world of the Huffington Post, BuzzFeed and Politico, websites that churn out countless bits and bytes of news, commentary and opinion around the clock....

Hey Joe: Mailbag goes cuckoo for Tum Tum

Nairn has hit a three in each of the past two games, both of them open, step-in jumpers with the shot clock close to expiring. In both cases, Izzo would have chewed him out for not taking those shots. If Nairn starts jacking up contested bombs, then he ...

Meet Britain's most obsessive collectors

Roman says: We eat, sleep and live cuckoo clocks ... is a table clock carved from one piece of wood. It has two hares on top with a fox at the bottom staring up at them. We chased this clock for over a year until we found it. Hunting for clocks is exciting.