German Cuckoo Clocks

Our clocks are equipped with:

• deep carved carvings
• figures, hands and cuckoo from wood
• decoration is from pure natural materials
• mechanical movement from SBS in Schonach, Black Forest
• rust-resistant chains from brass
• groundcase from massive wood or shingles on the house and on the roof
• proportional right and realistic representation from animals, plants and people
• night-off-switch
• instructions in English
• 5 years warranty (with service-addresses world-wide)

Please take your time and a look. Put your attention to details like the clock face, hands and the carvings. Then compare them to factory-made ones and you`ll realize the differences.

The Wood we use:

• mainly lindenwood
• maple, pine, walnut, cherrytree, nuttree, oak

What we don’t use:

• animals, which don`t look like in Nature
• electronical movement from China or Korea
• plastic arts like cuckoo, decoration or figures
• visible plywood cases and boards
• careless decoration, which doesn’t fit proportional
• too many toys on the clock like beer drinkers, kissing-pair, woodchopper, which are also sensitive parts of the movement

Around 1640 the first clocks have been made in the Black Forest and have been totally made from wood, inclusive the movement. About 1730 the clockmaker Franz Josef Ketterer was successful to imitate the natural cuckoo-call through two different air-bellows. The first cuckoo-clocks have been equipped with motives of hunting, birds and leaves.

In long winter months the clocks have been produced with phantasie and craftman skill in the Black Forest farming-houses and have been sold and exchanged from the worldfamous clockpeddlers, who walked through whole Europe and even to Russia and the USA.

The cuckoo-clock is since 250 years one of the export hits, which made the German inventive spirit worldwide famous and is still a well known trademark.