It’s either Germany, Switzerland or Austria right?
The cuckoo clock actually originated in the Black Forest area of Southern Germany, when a clockmaker named Franz Ketterer made the first one.
The reason the Swiss are associated with it is because after the bombings of the world wars, many of the German workshops were destroyed and Swiss clockmakers began making the cuckoo clock, a tradition they’ve carried on to this day. You can also blame Orson Wells: In 1949 he wrote in his spy novel "The Third Man: "In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock." Ever since, readers have been talking about the ‘Swiss cuckoo clock’. Be that as it may, cuckoo clocks are a popular Swiss souvenir and you’ll find them in most souvenir shops. Just make sure to shop around, as a little bit of hunting can turn up a real bargain of a cuckoo!