German cuckoo clocks from the Black Forest
Authentic German cuckoo clocks from the Black Forest The cuckoo clocks are typically pendulum-regulated wall clocks that hit the hours with a sound like a typical cuckoo’s call and have an automated cuckoo bird that moves with each note. Some move their wings and open their bills while rolling ahead, whereas, in others, only the bird’s body rolls forward. The mechanism that gives the cuckoo call has been in use since the middle of the 18th century and has continued nearly without change until the present.
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