Cuckoo Clock from the Black Forest, Interlaken

A cuckoo clock is a typically pendulum-regulated clock traditionally manufactured in the Black Forest in Germany that strikes the hours with a sound like a common cuckoo's call and often has a mechanical cuckoo that emerges with each note. The mechanism to produce the cuckoo call was installed in almost every kind of cuckoo clock since the middle of the 18th century and has remained almost without variation, until the present.The cuckoo clock does not originally come from Switzerland. It’s a Black Forest way of telling time. However, if you really have to have one, then Interlaken is positively chiming with them and is home to "the only genuine Swiss Cuckoo Clock in the world." Lotscher clocks are made of linden wood, are carved in Brienz and assembled in Zürich. They also cost. So if you have the money and want your home to take on a real Alpine flair, then make sure you buy the real thing.