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.

While there’s evidence that some low-cost lighting products made in China are of dubious quality, I have no data, anecdotal or otherwise, on quartz clocks manufactured there. Though if a clock costs ...

In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace, and all they produced was the cuckoo clock. “That wasn’t my father’s line,” says Bourget. “Orson Welles put ...