INSIDE A CUCKOO CLOCK

Clocks have always fascinated me right from a young age of six when my father imported a German Kienzle chiming clock way back in 1954. It chimes every 15 minutes even today. He then went on to get himself a Cuckoo Clock after which my mother was obsessed with showing it off to anyone visiting our house. Children were no exception and so my children and nephews and nieces had to be taken to stand in front of the Cuckoo clock and patiently wait for the next hourly chime.

Like all things mechanical, the clock had to stop working either due to wear and tear or lack of lubrication. For lack of any worthwhile incentive, the Cuckoo clock got mothballed out of sight for a few years. But, the need to clear up a lot of clutter in various storage almirahs recently got the Cuckoo Clock out once again two…