Editing Cuckoo clock (section)

===Chalet style, the Swiss contribution===
[[File:Swiss cuckoo clock, ca. 1900.jpg|thumb|right|Swiss table cuckoo clock with case in the shape of a Swiss Alpine [[chalet]], [[Brienz]]. It is fitted with a music box with eight melodies, c. 1900.]]
[[File:Cuckoo clock, chalet style, Furtwangen, ca. 1910.jpg|thumb|right|Chalet style German wall clock with case in the shape of a Black Forest [[farmhouse]]. Gordian Hettich Sohn, [[Furtwangen]], c. 1910 (Deutsches Uhrenmuseum, Inv. 2018–040)]]
The [[chalet]] style cuckoo clock, whose case reproduce to scale a traditional [[farmhouse]], originated in Switzerland<ref name=RB>{{cite news |url=https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/going-cuckoo-about-real-swiss-cuckoo-clocks/681210 |author=Robert Brookes |title=Going cuckoo about real Swiss cuckoo clocks |date=24 November 2006 |publisher=SWI swissinfo.ch, a branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation [[SRG SSR]] |location=Berne, Switzerland |access-date=2019-04-24}}</ref> in the late 19th century. 

The miniature Swiss chalets date back to the beginnings of artistic wood carving in [[Brienz]], in the early 19th century.<ref>Peter F. Blackman, ''The Black Forest Woodcarvings'' (2009): p. 33</ref> The Brienzerware chalet became a popular [[souvenir]], allowing tourists to take home an explicit reminder of a quintessential Swiss structure, though some were rather grand in scale, measuring three or more feet across.<ref>Peter F. Blackman, ''The Black Forest Woodcarvings'' (2009): p. 271</ref> Many of these chalets, crafted in different sizes, doubled as music boxes, jewellery boxes, decorative objects, timepieces, etc. Some of those table clocks had also the added feature of a cuckoo bird or the tandem composed of a cuckoo and quail.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Swiss cuckoo and quail clock, 1880s|url=https://www.1stdibs.com/fr/meubles/objets-d%C3%A9coratifs/horloges/plus-dhorloges/horloge-de-chalet-suisse-de-la-for%C3%AAt-noire-sculpt%C3%A9e-vers-1880/id-f_11331803/|access-date=2022-09-08|website=1stdibs.com|language=fr}}</ref>

Eventually, [[Black Forest clockmakers|Black Forest makers]] incorporated the chalet style to their production in the early 20th century, and still remains a popular choice, along with the carved ones, among buyers of this [[Cult following|cult]] item. Cases are usually made after the traditional farmhouses of different regions, such as the [[Black Forest]], [[Swiss Alps]], [[Emmental]], [[Bavaria]] and [[Tyrol]]. They often have a musical movement, as well as moving figurines and some other elements.

Contrary to popular belief, Switzerland is not the birthplace of the cuckoo clock.<ref name=RB/> In the English-speaking world, cuckoo clocks are sufficiently identified with Switzerland that the 1949 film ''[[The Third Man]]'' has an oft-quoted speech (and it even had [[The Third Man#.22Swiss cuckoo clock.22 speech|antecedents]]) in which the villainous Harry Lime mockingly says: " (...) in Italy, for 30 years under the [[Borgias]], they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced [[Michelangelo]], [[Leonardo da Vinci]] and the [[Renaissance]]. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."<ref name=RB/>