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By Robert Thatcher

The craft of clock making is said to have started in Black Forest, Germany. The abundance of both time and woods have fashioned the idea of creating clocks, which was followed after an imported clock from a nearby area.

The first clocks that were produced in this region were rather primitive but are great alternatives for the sundials hourglasses that were ordinarily use during those times. Wooden toothed wheels were the first parts and the weights are normally made of stones. The pendulum was created from the wood named as Waag that runs back and forth on top of the dial to keep the cuckoo clock in time.

In due time, the inhabitants of the Black Forest became artisans in their own fields. Some specialized in wood carving, others on clock making. Still others became clock painters while some make the toothed wheels and the chains.

And from this peaceful countryside of Black Forest town of Schönwald, Germany did the cuckoo clocks originated. Later, cuckoo clocks have gain worldwide popularity due to their uniqueness. What was originally the Dutch clock was reinvented to capture a nature’s sound-the cuckoo’s call. Franz Ketterer outlined the system of a clock that imitates the whistles and billows of the cuckoos. Refinements on the original design of the cuckoo clocks had led to the familiar set of a chalet or a birdhouse.

Since 1738, the production of the cuckoo clocks is still centralized at the Black Forest area in Germany, specifically in Neustadt and Triberg. However, cuckoo clocks are often thought of having its origin from Switzerland.

This confusion may have been due to the fact that there are other versions of the cuckoo clocks from neighboring regions, which had been around for quite some time even before the making of the cuckoo clocks. One good example is the rooster clock.

A cuckoo clock typically has a pendulum built into it. Conceptualized after the striking of a gong, the cuckoo clocks are characterized by whistles and billows that are imitated after the calls of the cuckoo birds. The designs of ordinary cuckoo clocks are often conventional with birds popping up from the openings and rustic designs all over with occasional nature designs like animals and leaves. Cuckoo clocks are hanged on the walls and are frequently enclosed in wooden boxes.

As the clock strikes, the bird that is hidden within the cuckoo clock appears through the trap door and vanishes immediately after the striking is done.

The typical cuckoo clocks have birds that move everytime the clock strikes. This is done through an arm that is being lifted from behind the carving. Most cuckoo clocks are programmed to play musical tunes from a musical box before the hour strikes. This type of cuckoo clocks has other automata that creates the musical tunes. Most clocks are driven by weight, they are seldom made with spring drives.

With modernity comes the change in the cuckoo clocks. There had been created clocks that imitate the billows and whistles of the cuckoos, only electronically. Mostly of these are fake quartz that runs through battery.

With the clocks’ fame, many of them have moved their ways into the homes worldwide. Many are still fashioned after the traditional cuckoo clocks but many were created with the touch of modernity. A display of these clocks is a genuine mark of Germany.

Robert Thatcher is a freelance publisher based in Cupertino, California. He publishes articles and reports in various ezines and provides cuckoo clock resources on www.about-cuckoo-clocks.info.

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Thomas Hewitt

(Born 1799, died 1867)

A chronometer maker who devised many different forms of compensation balances.

John Arnold

(Born in Cornwall, 1736; died at Well Hall near Eltham, Kent, in 1799)

He invented the helical form of balance spring (Patent No. 1113, Dec 1775), and devised a chronometer excapement (Patent No. 1328, May 1782) very closely resembling the one by Earnshaw, which is now in use. In Arnold’s Escapement, the escape wheel teeth, instead of being flat where they gave impulse, were epicycloidal curves; but they required oiling, and were consequently abandoned. While Earnshaw’s wheel is locked on the points of the teeth and the detent moves away from the centre of the wheel to unlock, Arnold’s locked on the heel of the tooth and the detent moved toward the centre of the wheel to unlock, the sunk part of the body of the wheel allowing the locking stone to pass. His business was, after his death, carried on at 84, Strand, by his son John R. Arnold.

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John Arnold (born 1736 in Bodmin, Cornwall; died 1799 in London) was a watchmaker who developed and patented escapement and balance spring designs. He is known to have lived for a period at Well Hall House in Eltham, southeast London. In 1736, Arnold constructed what was then the smallest repeating watch, which was set in a ring and given to George III.

He then turned his attention to the production of ever more precise chronometers. One of these travelled with the explorer James Cook during his second voyage to the southern Pacific Ocean in 1772–1775. His undoubted claim to fame in the field of marine chronometers is the first application of a helical balance spring. This allowed the balance to swing through larger or smaller arcs in a constant time, one of the fundamental requirements for accurate timekeeping.

Arnold set up a small factory in Chigwell, Essex for the production of chronometers and in 1788 produced the first pocket chronometer. This watch, “No. 1/36″, greatly impressed the Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne and was the first watch Arnold deemed worthy of the description “chronometer”.