And lastly, you got to go look at the cuckoo clocks,” he said. Clock seller Niklas Wendler brings the authentic hand-crafted clocks from the Black Forest in southwestern Germany. “You will not ...

Few home-made timepieces though have come as near to wristwatch Nirvana as the cuckoo clock wristwatch from [Kiyotaka Akasaka], which we would venture to name as having won wristwatches.

Frank Buffalino loves cuckoo clocks, but he concedes  having 50 tiny wooden birds coo-kooing all at once is a bit much. “We used to have all our clocks set to the same time,” he recalled, “but it ...

Buffalino’s collection includes Black Forest cuckoo clocks, marked by hand-carved stags with racks of outstanding antlers. Frank Buffalino demonstrates how he would work on a clock while at his ...