INSIDE the cover of the copy of one of Kurt Vonnegut's books, Mother Night, that belongs to the third largest library in the country is pasted a very-old-looking ... of a cuckoo clock in Hell.

Few home-made timepieces though have come as near to wristwatch Nirvana as the cuckoo clock wristwatch from [Kiyotaka Akasaka], which we would venture to name as having won wristwatches.

He wanted to practice on an old timepiece before bringing in his ... was dismantling her paternal grandmother’s cuckoo clock, which also wasn’t working. Her husband, who preferred not to ...