My 25-year-old cuckoo clock hung on the dining room wall silent for over two years. Finally, this month, I decided to see if I could repair the clock to produce the comforting, hourly cuckoo whistle ...

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 ...

TUSCALOOSA | Timing is everything to Kenneth Moore. It's how he makes his living in a job in which he works with baffles and bushings to get the pings and bongs just right. Moore is a clock repairman.

WAUKESHA, Wis. — Bill Galinsky has likely heard the call of the American cowbird more times than an ornithologist. The European cuckoo, too — Galinsky hears that bird all day, every day. Whether it’s ...

The European cuckoo, too -- Galinsky hears that bird all day, every day. Whether it's the 20 cuckoo clocks in his home or the hundreds he has built or collected or is currently repairing in his ...

Nigel Barnes, a fifth-generation horologist, acknowledges that it is a “tall order” to learn to fix a clock in two days. But some manage it, he said. Nigel Barnes working with Seán Martin, who had ...

ST. PETER — Steve Hultengren said he probably has his mom to thank for his interest in clocks, which led to a career spanning more than four decades. It wasn't that she encouraged him as a youngster ...