Which cuckoo clocks are best? Cuckoo clocks are some of the most intricate and beautifully designed clocks there are. Built with hours of care and patience, they are typically hand-carved over months ...

Certain trips acquire an almost mythical quality over time: You leave home at the right moment and return just as it passes. You have friends to visit along your route, and all of them are delighted ...

The country that made the cuckoo bird famous with its clocks is now worried the bird might follow the tragic path of the dodo -- into extinction. Nature and clock preservationists are teaming up and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Time will fly on a nine-day tour that introduces participants to some of Switzerland’s luxury watchmakers as well as the world-famous cuckoo clocks of Germany’s Black Forest. Participants will visit ...

It is a few seconds to 4 pm and it’s time for Romeo’s daily date with Juliet. There is celebration in the air – the dolls in this wooden house start dancing, signalling the arrival of Romeo. Juliet ...