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Remember to change your clocks this weekend, Set your clocks ahead this coming Sunday morning at 2:00 am (or just set your clock an hour ahead before you go to bed Saturday night!) daylight savings time starts this Sunday March 13^th.

Daylight saving time is the practice of adjusting our clocks forward one hour near the start of spring and one hour backward in autumn. The main purpose of Daylight Saving Time is to make better use of daylight. We change our clocks during the summer months to move an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening and in the winter we set it one back one hour to take advantage of more light in the morning hours. (more…)

What style of Cuckoo Clock do you have? There are two main styles of Cuckoo Clocks the Chalet and the traditionally carved. The Chalet currently has three basic styles, according to the different traditional houses depicted: Black Forest chalet, Swiss chalet (with two types the “Brienz” and the “Emmental”) and finally the Bavarian chalet.  This normally depicts a scene of everyday life. Many have handmade and hand laid shingles on the roofs and feature details such as dancers, beer drinkers and wood choppers as well as beautifully carved animals and turning water wheels. On the other hand the traditionally carved Cuckoo Clocks usually have very detailed carvings of birds, deer, eagles, leaves or owls in a nature or hunting scene.  Almost all of the Clocks have  an automaton of the bird that appears through a small trap door while the clock is striking. The bird is often made to move while the clock strikes, typically by means of an arm that lifts the back of the carving.

There are three different types of movements the One Day, the Eight Day and Quartz movements.  All “1-day” Cuckoo Clocks have a mechanical movement that requires winding every 24 hours. At the top of the hour a little door opens to reveal the cuckoo bird on a perch which calls the number of hours. The cuckoo bird also calls once on the half-hour. This is the least expensive Cuckoo Clock.

The “8-day” Cuckoo Clock has a mechanical movement that requires winding every 8 days. It also has a little door that opens as the top of the hour to reveal the cuckoo bird on a perch which calls the number of hours and once on the half-hour. The visible difference between the two clocks is the s

ize of the weights. The 8-Day clock weights are bigger and heavy than the 1 day clock weights.

The last type of movement is the Quartz movement Cuckoo clock. The Quartz Cuckoo clocks uses a regular clock mechanism, which draws power from batteries. Depending on what type of battery used these cuckoo clocks will run for approximately for one year on one set of batteries. Because of the use of batteries the Quartz Cuckoo Clock is not an authentic. On the hour the cuckoo bird pops out, and even flaps its wings, but in the Quartz clock the call of a real cuckoo is recorded along with other sounds from the woods such as a running stream. At that time other animated figures will also move. A volume control is added to the Quartz Clock to increase or diminish the sound along with a shut off switch. Some Quartz Cuckoo Clocks have an added advantage of having a photo-cell light sensor inserted. When the light is turned off in the evening the cuckoo call is also turned off.

Cuckoo Clocks are one of the most unique clocks that you can use to decorate your home. You are just a click away at www.thelcocksshop.com from finding the highest quality and most unique Cuckoo Clocks available.

A longcase clock, also tall-case clock, floor clock, or grandfather clock, is a tall, freestanding, weight-driven pendulum clock with the pendulum held inside the tower, or waist of the case. The case often features elaborately carved ornamentation on the hood, or bonnet, which surrounds and frames the dial, or clock face. Most longcase clocks are striking clocks, which means they sound the time on each hour or fraction of an hour.

The history of this clock dates back to the 1500’s when Galileo discovered that a pendulum could be used to keep time. He drew the first designs for a grandfather clock but it was not until 1665 that Christian Huygens put Gallileo’s discovery to use and built the first Long Case Clock.

The name Grandfather clock came from a song that was written by Henry Work in 1875. The song was called “My Grandfathers Clock” and was written about a clock in the George Hotel in Pierecebridge, CountyDurham, England.  As the story goes there were two brothers that owned or managed the hotel.  When one brother died the clock began to loose time and then stopped completely when the second brother passed away.  Henry Work wrote the song to celebrate this story and the name Grandfather Clocks was born.

Today’s grandfather clocks rely on a pendulum attached to an anchor. The swinging pendulum causes the anchor to turn a gear, which in turn causes the clock to tick. A pair of weights further helps power the clock and keeps it from losing time .The typical grandfather clock stands between 6 and 8 feet tall, the clock is characterized by a long and narrow wooden case and a traditional one has a movement that is driven by weights or chains.

No matter whether you call it a tall clock, a floor clock or a grandfather clock, these elegant clocks occupy a nostalgic spot in the hearts of many. Grandfather clocks can be a great addition to almost any home they can be antiques, collectibles, heirlooms, or just a beautiful furniture piece.

The anniversary clock is an old fashioned spring driven clock with a spinning pendulum. The clocks are usually made of brass and crystal, are often given as wedding gifts and are passed on from generation to generation. The anniversary clock got its descriptive name, which was copyrighted by Bowler & Burdock Company in 1901, because it was the first mechanical clock that didn’t need daily winding. The clock’s slow torsion pendulum only needed to be wound once a year and couples could do this on their wedding anniversary.

Most anniversary clocks are made of brass, have a rotating pendulum beneath the dial encased a glass dome. But an increasingly popular demand, are clocks with the anniversary clock style movement placed within a carriage (mantel clock) type case with glass panels. Combining it with characteristics of a mantel clock the anniversary clock becomes a very elegant timepiece.

The Anniversary Clock is a torsion clock. It is a mechanical clock with a spring wound pendulum that rotates clockwise and counter-clockwise. A weighted disk suspended by a wire that is the torsion spring twists and powers the clock’s gears allowing it to use less energy, and able it to last as many as 400 days on a single winding.

A tradition that started at the beginning of last century, anniversary clocks remain some of the most sought after wedding gifts. Who could resist the romantic ideal of celebrating one’s wedding anniversary with the replenishing of energy to an elegantly designed timepiece? Whether wound with a key, or quartz battery powered, the anniversary clock is symbolic of the couple’s commitment to each other and their marriage for the coming year.