river city quartz movement cuckoo clocks

Pa. clockmaker restores family heirlooms

Clocks serenade him as he works at his scarred bench, restoring and repairing wooden cases and intricate brass movements, at peace. Not everyone would hear the harmony of steady ticking punctuated by chimes and cuckoos, but the owner of Steiger ...

Why Make One 'Goosebumps' Movie When You Could Make All Of Them?

Ken Marino was cast today in Sony's Goosebumps movie, which will star Jack Black as author R.L. Stine and, from the bare-bones plot description, will see his most famous creation Slappy the living dummy unleash a bunch of monsters on a school. Fine, I ...

3 Billion-Year-Old Sulfur-Eating Microbes May Be the Oldest Fossils Ever Found

What's the News: Geologists have found fossils of microorganisms from 3.4 billion years ago, which may be the oldest fossils ever uncovered. Since these microbes date from a time when Earth's atmosphere was still oxygen-free, astrobiologists could look ...

How to Turn a Frog Egg Into a Robot's Artificial Nose

That's because e-noses use quartz rods designed to vibrate at a different frequency when they bind to a target substance. But this is not a foolproof system, as subtly different substances with similar molecular weights may bind to the rod, producing a ...

How Top Watchmakers Intervene in Auctions

Watch magazines and retailers hailed the sale, at an auction in the lush Mandarin Oriental Hotel on the River Rhone. Omega trumpeted it Omega once equaled Rolex as a brand with appeal to both collectors and consumers, but in the 1980s, Omega sought ...

Earth Raised up Its Magnetic Shield Early, Protecting Water and Emerging Life

In South Africa, study leader John Tarduno and his team found quartz with iron tucked inside that had remained unchanged in all those years. Using a specially designed magnetometer and improved lab techniques, the team detected a magnetic signal in ...

Rock-Solid Science: A 6-Mile-Wide Space Rock Did Wipe Out the Dinosaurs ...

The team also based their conclusions on “shocked” quartz. Quartz is shocked when it is hit very quickly by a huge force; shocked quartz is found only at asteroid impact locations and nuclear explosion sites. The abundance of shocked quartz in the rock ...

Luxuries: Designer cuckoo clocks, red clothes, accessories

One-day-movement Chalet-style cuckoo clock by August Schwer, $475 at cuckoo-palace.com. • Contemporary one-day wind cuckoo clock by Rombach and Hass Simple Line, $498.75 at clockshoppes.com. • One-day cuckoo wall clock by River City Clocks, $167.99 at ...

River City Bird and Well Quartz Novelty Clock - German Chalet

This clock does not have a cuckoo ... Please see the River City Clocks Warranty Page for more information about the warranty. Blue bird moves back and forth. Man and woman swing back and forth on the pendulum swing. Accurate quartz movement.

River City Five Maple Leaves and One Bird One Day Hand-Carved Cuckoo Clock

Please see the River City Clocks Warranty Page for more information about the warranty. Hand-carved by master craftsman in the Black Forest of Germany. All brass mechanical movement. Cuckoo bird cuckoos the hour at the top of every hour. Traditional five ...

Going cuckoo about real Swiss cuckoo clocks

What could come as a surprise however is learning that Switzerland is not in fact the home of the cuckoo clock and that many of the cheap quartz clocks on sale are ... It might sound un-Swiss that the movement inside Lötscher clocks is German, but there ...