In 2024, the collection was acquired from Maz and Roman Piekarski, who were closing their cuckoo clock museum in Knutsford, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
STURBRIDGE — Sturbridge is seemingly synonymous with history, from its first settlers in 1644 to the opening in 1946 of Old Sturbridge Village, which welcomes visitors to experience life in a rural ...
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, ...