asked Colman Curran, a retired lawyer turned horologist, as he delicately attached a pair of hand-carved bone hands (“probably cow or horse”) to the dial of a wooden cuckoo clock. In January ...

The name can evoke both a delirious state of mind (going cuckoo) and a shameful romantic betrayal (being cuckolded). They’re also a type of clock, a symbol for the arrival of spring, a beloved ...

Mr. Hoffman mentioned the case of a plant making cuckoo clocks. “Personally, I’m in favor of letting the Germans make cuckoo clocks.” Contact us at [email protected] ...

Cuckoo's clocks are unable to keep up with climate change, new research warns. The birds spend the winter in central Africa, before travelling north to western Europe to herald the arrival of spring.

Then, there are the abstract clocks that might take a few more seconds (sorry) to read but function more like a hanging piece of wall art. (If you ask me, the classic cuckoo clock falls into both ...