Coo Coo Clock
It is not clear who built the first coo coo clocks in the black forest but there is unanimity that the unusual clock with the bird call very
quickly conquered the region. Already by the middle of the 18th century,
several small clockmaking shops produced coo coo clocks with wooden
gears. So the first Black Forest examples were created between 1740 and
1750. They had hand-painted shields.
It is hard to judge how large the proportion of coo coo clocks was
among the total production of modern movement Black Forest clocks. Based
on the proportions of pieces surviving to the present, it must have
been a small fraction of the total production.
Regarding its murky origins, there are two main fables from the first
two chroniclers of Black Forest horology which tell contradicting
stories about it:
The first is from Father Franz steyrer, written in his "Geschichte
der Schwarzwälder Uhrmacherkunst" (History of Clockmaking in the Black
Forest) in 1796. He describes a meeting between two clock peddlers from
Furtwangen (a town in the Black Forest) who met a travelling Bohemian
merchant who sold wooden cuckoo clocks. Both the Furtwangen traders were
so excited that they bought one.
Coo Coo Clock
Coo Coo Clock
Coo Coo Clock
Coo Coo Clock
Coo Coo Clock
Coo Coo Clock
Coo Coo Clock
Coo Coo Clock
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