“The good thing about cuckoo clocks is that they go back together easily,” Marchesoni says. “They are a lot of fun, and there are a lot of different styles and varieties.

So presumably after a significant period of reflection, he’s built an Alien themed cuckoo clock. Something of an off-the-wall choice, you might say, but he persevered with it.

HOLLAND — If you think there’s something cuckoo in Holland these days, there is. Former electrical engineer Dan Winebrenner is opening Holland Clock Co., a store specializing in new and ...

If German clockmakers in the early 18th century had been successful in their first desire — a rooster popping out of that little door and crowing on the hour — there would be no "coo-coo" clocks.