INSIDE the cover of the copy of one of Kurt Vonnegut's books, Mother Night, that belongs to the third largest library in the country is pasted a very-old-looking bookplate. The plate bears an oval ...

SAINT CLAIR — Frank Buffalino loves cuckoo clocks, but he concedes having 50 tiny wooden birds going off at once is a bit much. “We used to have all our clocks set to the same time,” he ...

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.