It has been edited for length and clarity. I'm 90 years old and still work full time in our family's business, a cuckoo-clock shop called Omeo Clocks and Glass. I love meeting people and looking ...

That childhood fascination turned into passion when he got his first cuckoo clock — a thrift shop bargain at $30 — about 10 years ago. “It was broken, and I wanted to fix it,” says ...

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.