12" One Day Musical Cuckoo Clock Cottage with Man Chopping Wood and Waterwheel
Description
| This German one-day cuckoo clock cottage features a man chopping a log and a moving waterwheel. Beneath the shingled roof you'll find several hand-made figurines including a dog and a deer. On the top of every hour and on the half-hour the woodchopper chops wood and the waterwheel turns. This clock also plays music on the hour & half-hour alternating between two different twenty-two note melodies: Edelweiss & The Happy Wanderer. Three cast iron pinecone weights are suspended beneath the clock case by three separate brass chains. The hand-made pendulum continuously swings back and forth which controls the timing of the clock. On every hour the cuckoo bird emerges from a swinging door above the clock dial and counts the hour by cuckooing once per hour. (Example: At one o'clock the bird will cuckoo once. At eight o'clock the bird will cuckoo eight times) The half hour is announced with one cuckoo call. There is a sound shut-off device beneath the base of the cuckoo clock. Pushing the lever up disables the cuckoo birds cuckoo, the woodchopper, waterwheel, and the music. Pulling the lever down enables the woodchopper and waterwheel to move and allows the music and cuckoo. The 30-hour mechanical Regula movement is wound once per day by raising the three pinecone weights. One weight powers the time, one weight powers the music, and the other weight powers the cuckoo bird and cuckoo call, woodchopper, and waterwheel. *Great effort has been made to portray each cuckoo clock as accurately as possible. As with many handmade items, the exact coloration and carving may vary slightly from clock to clock. We consider this to be a special part of their character. |
12" One Day Musical Cuckoo Clock Cottage with Man Chopping Wood and Waterwheel
$990.00