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Lötscher company, based near Zurich, can boast it makes the only genuine Swiss cuckoo clocks in the world.
"The one we make is the chalet type. It's typically Swiss and is a Swiss invention," company director Bijan Vafi told swissinfo. "It's made in two parts. One is the wooden part and the other is the mechanical part, made out of metal."
Top range
The company's clocks are at the top range of the market, requiring much skill to marry the delicately carved wood and the mechanics.
Lötscher has two facilities in Switzerland, with the woodcarving carried out in the Bernese Oberland village of
Brienz -- renowned for the skills of its wood
workers -- and Fällanden near Zurich, where the clocks are assembled.

"It takes about three months to make the wood case.
We use linden wood which is naturally dried so it doesn't crack," Vafi explained.
Assembling the final clock is no easy matter when you consider that the wood tends to expand and contract.
It might sound un-Swiss that the movement inside Lötscher clocks is German, but there is a very good reason for that.
"We don't have any factories here making movements for cuckoo clocks.
There is only one left and that is in Germany."
But Lötscher prides itself that all the added value on its clocks is "Swiss made".

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[chachavessel]

The Swiss of all people, stopped making cuckoo clock time movements years ago; they now use German made time pieces instead. The rest is hand made in Switzerland....

[lolerdelol]

how can it be swiss made and german at the same time?

[chachavessel]

What he said is clearly stated. You can make your own conclusion.