Cuckoo Clocks
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River City Clocks
$1,117.00These traditionally styled German one-day cuckoo clocks feature wooden hands, a wood dial with Roman numerals, and a warm light-yellow hand-painted and hand-carved cuckoo bird. The case is surrounded by seven deeply carved maple leaves with a single...$1,117.00 -
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River City Clocks
$962.00These chalet German one-day cuckoo clocks feature wooden hands, a wood dial with Roman numerals, and a warm light-yellow hand-painted and hand-carved cuckoo bird. The case features a beer drinker sitting at a table with a hand-carved tree and water pump...$962.00 -
MD487-18
$1,523.00These hand-carved Black Forest one-day musical cuckoo clocks display many leaves, three birds, and a bird nest with chicks. At the top of every hour, the dancers revolve, and it plays one of two different twenty-two-note melodies, Edelweiss and the Happy...$1,523.00 -
MD483-14
River City Clocks
$1,373.00These hand-carved German one-day musical cuckoo clocks display many leaves, three birds, and a bird nest with chicks. At the top of every hour, the dancers revolve, and it plays one of two different twenty-two-note melodies, Edelweiss and the Happy...$1,373.00 -
MD482-11
River City Clocks
$1,323.00These decorative Black Forest one-day musical cuckoo clocks have many hand-painted flowers on their case and also feature a handmade tree and water pump. At the top of every hour, the dancers revolve, and it plays one of two different twenty-two-note...$1,323.00 -
MD442-12P
River City Clocks
$1,361.00These chalet style one-day musical cuckoo clocks feature wooden hands, a wood dial with Roman numerals, and a warm light-yellow hand-painted and hand-carved cuckoo bird. Features hand-painted flowers, a woodchopper that chops wood, and a moving...$1,361.00 -
MD419-17
River City Clocks
$1,448.00These German one-day musical cuckoo clocks feature wooden hands, a wood dial with Roman numerals, and a warm light-yellow hand-painted and hand-carved cuckoo bird. The case has several hand-carved oak leaves, animals, crossed rifles, and a buck. The...$1,448.00 -
MD415-16
River City Clocks
$1,561.00These German one-day musical cuckoo clocks feature wooden hands, a wood dial with Roman numerals, and a warm light-yellow hand-painted and hand-carved cuckoo bird. The case has several hand-carved maple leaves and moving birds. On every hour and...$1,561.00 -
MD411-14P
River City Clocks
$1,211.00These traditionally styled German one-day musical cuckoo clocks feature wooden hands, a wood dial with Roman numerals, and a warm light-yellow hand-painted and hand-carved cuckoo bird. Every hour and half-hour, dancers revolve on the turntable before...$1,211.00 -
MD411-14
River City Clocks
$1,186.00These traditionally styled German one-day musical cuckoo clocks feature wooden hands, a wood dial with Roman numerals, and a warm light-yellow hand-painted and hand-carved cuckoo bird. Every hour and half-hour, the dancers revolve around the turntable...$1,186.00 -
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River City Clocks
$1,221.00These traditionally styled German cuckoo clocks feature wooden hands, a wood dial with Roman numerals, and a warm light-yellow hand-painted and hand-carved cuckoo bird. The case is surrounded by five hand-carved maple leaves with a hand-carved deer head...$1,221.00 -
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River City Clocks
$1,248.00These finely carved German cuckoo clocks feature many hand-carved leaves and three birds. Cuckoo bird calls out the half-hours and counts the hours. There is also a manual night shut-off switch that allows you to mute the cuckoo sound. These cuckoo...$1,248.00 -
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River City Clocks
$1,248.00These Aesop's Fable-themed German cuckoo clocks feature wooden hands, a wood dial with Roman numerals, and a warm light-yellow hand-painted and hand-carved cuckoo bird. The case features many hand-carved maple leaves, grapes, a fox beneath the dial, and...$1,248.00 -
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River City Clocks
$1,361.00These deeply carved German cuckoo clocks feature many hand-carved leaves, birds, and a bird's nest with chicks. Cuckoo bird calls out the half-hour and counts the hours. There is also a manual night shut-off switch that allows you to mute the cuckoo...$1,361.00 -
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River City Clocks
$1,286.00These traditionally styled German cuckoo clocks feature wooden hands, a wood dial with Roman numerals, and a warm light-yellow hand-painted and hand-carved cuckoo bird. The case is surrounded by many carved oak leaves with a hand-carved deer head with...$1,286.00 -
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River City Clocks
$1,311.00These traditionally styled German cuckoo clocks feature wooden hands, a wood dial with Roman numerals, and a warm light-yellow hand-painted and hand-carved cuckoo bird. The case is surrounded by many deeply carved maple leaves with a single hand-carved...$1,311.00 -
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River City Clocks
$986.00These traditionally styled German cuckoo clocks feature wooden hands, a wood dial with Roman numerals, and a warm light-yellow hand-painted and hand-carved cuckoo bird. The case is surrounded by five deeply carved maple leaves, with a single hand-carved...$986.00 -
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River City Clocks
$1,491.00German eight-day wood chopper cuckoo clocks. At the top of each hour, the man chops away at his log in front of the Black Forest cuckoo clock cottage. The man is surrounded by hand-carved trees and wildlife, including two fawn feeding and a cuckoo...$1,491.00 -
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River City Clocks
$1,336.00These German eight-day cuckoo clocks feature wooden hands, a wood dial with Roman numerals, and a warm light-yellow hand-painted and hand-carved cuckoo bird. The case is surrounded by vines covered with leaves. Two cast iron pinecone weights are...$1,336.00 -
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River City Clocks
$1,423.00These chalet-style German eight-day cuckoo clocks feature wooden hands, a wood dial with Roman numerals, and a warm light-yellow hand-painted and hand-carved cuckoo bird. Every hour when the clock cuckoos, the beer drinker raises and lowers his mug. Two...$1,423.00 -
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River City Clocks
$1,536.00At the top of each hour, the expert angler reels in his big catch on these German eight-day cuckoo clocks. The fisherman is outdoors by a small pond surrounded by hand-carved trees and his trusty dog, Wirbelwind. The cottage has two windows with wooden...$1,536.00
Cuckoo Clocks
Cuckoo clocks are heirloom timepieces just like any other mechanical clock and with our technical service support a cuckoo clock purchase from us is sure to become a family favorite. These clocks run by the gravitational pull of weights that hang on long chains. The two types of mechanical cuckoo clocks that run in such a manner are the one-day and eight-day models. For one-day cuckoo clocks, the gravitational pull of the weights will generally last for up to one day, at which time the weights will need to be wound up again by manually pulling on the chain that corresponds to each weight to the clock. For eight-day cuckoo clocks, the gravitational pull of heavier weights will generally power the clock for up to seven days. Although they're referred to as an "eight-day clock," they generally still need to be wound every seven days. The chains that cuckoo clock weights hang from are generally around six feet long but can vary by a few inches from one model to the next.
Cuckoo clocks need to be wound either once a day or once a week. However, if the cuckoo clock is hung on the wall less than six feet high, the weights might hit the floor and will therefore cause the clock to be wound more often in the day or week. In fact, there is an interesting story about Thomas Jefferson cutting holes in the floor of his home so that the weights would not hit the floor and would allow his weight-driven clock to run longer. Yet it will not hurt the cuckoo clock if it is wound more frequently than it needs to be. Nor does it matter in what order the weights are pulled up. However, it is a good practice to use one hand to hold the cuckoo clock on the wall as the weights are being pulled up so that the clock does not fall off the wall. It is also a good practice to place a small marking on the wall where the case is after the clock has been running properly for a while, perhaps with a pencil, so that it can be easily determined if the clock moved on the wall after a winding. Indeed, it is important that the cuckoo clock be straight and level on the wall, or else it may not run properly. This is what is known as "being in beat." The clock should have an even "tick-toc" sound.
Cuckoo clocks with mechanical movements will generally have either two or three weights. Two weights mean the cuckoo clock will strike the half-hours on a coil gong at the same time the cuckoo bird "calls out" the half-hours. If a cuckoo clock has three weights, then it will also play a melody on the hour and, in some cases, the half-hours as well. The melodies most often played in cuckoo clocks are Happy Wanderer and Edelweiss, which are usually rotated. Some select cuckoo clocks, however, will play another traditional German melody.
The mechanical one-day and eight-day cuckoo clocks we feature on our site and in our store are certified as original and authentic with the German VDS certifying body. Indeed, our clock store showcases the Hones and Engstler families because of their rich history in the Black Forest region of Germany. Moreover, our service center also repairs all types of cuckoo clocks for the general public, and we can provide continuing technical service support on many cuckoo clocks purchased from us.