German Clocks

German Clocks posts cover the cuckoo clock tradition of the Black Forest, the precision movements of Glashutte in Saxony, the long-case grandfather clocks built around the Erzgebirge, the Junghans factory in Schramberg that made cheaper quality movements at industrial scale, and the modern revival of mechanical wristwatches at Lange and Sohne, Nomos and Sinn. Articles look at the workings of a cuckoo clock with its bellows and gong, the difference between a chalet style and a classic Schwarzwald style, common repair issues with old wood-cased clocks and how to read a Glashutte hallmark on a postwar piece.