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 ...

Two brothers with the world’s largest collection of cuckoo clocks are preparing to move their 750 timepieces back one hour this weekend - for daylight saving. Roman Piekarski, 71 and Maz Piekarski, 69 ...

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 ...

Polished faces gleam from every corner of the room, yet the only sound inside this Elgin shop is a soft ticking. Keith Krantz, owner of the American Black Forest Clock Company, says he used to keep ...

Siblings Philip Mure and Roberta Mure have an extensive collection of clocks in their Mayville home in Chautauqua County. Most came from garage sales and thrift shops. Here is how they described their ...

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 ...

If you want to know what time it is, just step inside Time After Time. You’ll have no trouble finding out. Ray Evans has dozens of clocks waiting to be picked up inside his downtown Grand Island shop, ...