mechanical german cuckoo clocks

Ralph Jimenez: Multifaceted Stewart Brand wants to alter our perception of ...

The 200-foot-tall clock, which will be installed inside a hollowed-out chamber in Nevada's Mount Washington, is designed to run for 10,000 years. It will tick once per year. Every 1,000 years, a cuckoo will pop out and call. Only in California, I thought....

Plucky outsiders take on Swiss giants at Baselworld

“I decided to invest all of our innovation and creativity into the watch dials as we cannot hope to compete with Swiss-made mechanical movements,” he explains. China is his target market but the world's second Swiss watchmakers is to not make ...

The Lebanese designers now gaining global recognition

The duo's comparatively pared-down cuckoo clock is made of Lebanese cedar, and so riffs on their native country's national emblem, despite looking resolutely modern. Beirut has a tight-knit design network. “Over the past 15 years, there has been a ...

Editorial: Price of not being early bird

I am not one of those birds. I am of the cuckoo clock variety which mechanically emerges from her office every 120 minutes to swap parking spaces with some other stranger, in silent solidarity against parking fees. I once tried something different ...

Luxuries: Designer cuckoo clocks, red clothes, accessories

One-day-movement Anton Schneider Bears German cuckoo clock, $730.80 at blackforestgifts.com. • Carved owls and birds eight-day mechanical German Black Forest cuckoo clock, $474.58 at clockrite.com. • Auckland 1055 wall clock is made of PVC, wood ...

Portland Cuckoo Clock Stays Local Through March 2015

Weighing in at 7,000 pounds, the clock is the tallest, freestanding cuckoo clock in the country. Fittingly for all the urban farmers in Portland, a carved chicken will pop out each hour in place of a cuckoo bird. The clock was created by mechanical ...

Giant cuckoo clock lands at Portland International Airport

Created by sculptor and mechanical designer Nicolas (Nico) Gros, the almost 7,000-pound clock is fully functioning, with wooden gears and chainsaw-carved adornments by Oregon wood sculptor Chester Armstrong representing more than a dozen Portland ...