CHICAGO — Christmas is less than two weeks away – and there’s a last-minute gift idea at the Christkindlmarket in Daley Plaza. Frank Weschler said he has visited the traditional German holiday market ...

Once hundreds of clocks are hung in a new exhibition space, “it’s going to be like stepping into the Black Forest.” By Sandra Jordan Reporting from Waterford, Ireland “How often do you get the chance ...

Sometimes identifying and dating an antique seems easy, but it fools you. An unusual wall clock was offered at a recent auction. It was labeled “Friesland wall clock with automata, 1800.” Friesland is ...

The sandstone cliffs surrounding Triberg should have holes in them from which large wooden birds spring each hour, for the town is the heart of Germany’s cuckoo clock industry. Kate Hairsine ...

Cuckoo clocks at the cutting edge of street art? Unlikely though it may sound, German artist Stefan Strumbel has given a provocative twist to a Black Forest tradition -- and it is going down a storm.

For 65 years the Swiss have fought back against the convincing but incorrect claim of Orson Welles in The Third Man that their major contribution to western society has been the cuckoo clock. Those ...

I was going through some things in storage and my eye caught a box with tissue paper cradling something very dear to me — my Swiss chalet-style cuckoo clock. The tiny music box inside stopped cooing ...