Having a cuckoo clock at home comes with the responsibility of ensuring it is always clean and working well. Through proper care, a cuckoo clock will serve you for many years. Clocks that have mechanical movement need to be wound for them to continue working.

There are two basic types of high quality mechanical clock movements. The 1 day movement clocks must be wound every 24 hours while the 8 day cuckoo clocks must be wound once every week. Another type of cuckoo clocks has the quartz movement which runs on battery power.