It is thought that much of its development and evolution was made in the Black Forest area in southwestern Germany (in the modern state of Baden-Württemberg), the region where the cuckoo clock was popularized.

Where did the cuckoo clock come from?

The German cuckoo clock history began in the Bavarian area of Germany. In the years before 1630, time was kept with a sundial and an hourglass. When a glass peddler came back from Czechoslovakia returned with a crude clock called a wood-beam clock it changed their world.

Are cuckoo clocks Swiss or German?

The Black Forest region of southern Germany is where cuckoo clocks - mostly depicting a hunting scene - have their real nest. But the Lötscher company, based near Zurich, can boast it makes the only genuine Swiss cuckoo clocks in the world.