As the German UNESCO Commission reports on its website, while watchmaking has been on a national list since 2021, the ...

My 25-year-old cuckoo clock hung on the dining room wall silent for over two years. Finally, this month, I decided to see if I could repair the clock to produce the comforting, hourly cuckoo whistle ...

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“Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, ...

Ten years ago it was thought the famous Black Forest cuckoo clocks would disappear - sales plummeted and several old clockmakers went broke. Now, new features and modern designs have enabled a ...

Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. FRANKFURT, Germany — There ...

WAUKESHA, Wis. — Bill Galinsky has likely heard the call of the American cowbird more times than an ornithologist. The European cuckoo, too — Galinsky hears that bird all day, every day. Whether it’s ...

Keeping time and the instruments that keep our time have long held fascination for scientists and design enthusiasts. Since the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei discovered that pendulums could ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the neighbouring towns of Schonach and Triberg in the Black Forest region of Germany are two timbered gabled ...

Passengers wondering what time it is at Portland International Airport can look at a watch, a smartphone or a digital flight display board. But it's now far more entertaining to do a time check at the ...

The fifth generation of the Hubert Herr family is currently producing elaborately decorated clocks in Triberg. ( PETER_NEVILLE-HADLEY ) At Schramberg’s Car and Clock World in Germany’s Black Forest, a ...