Last night, when I got ready to retire (about 1:20 a.m.), I “wound” the three weights on my cuckoo clock. At about 8 a.m., I got up to feed the cats, and noticed that the weights for the cuckoo and the music box had not descended. The weight to run the clock had gone down the appropriate amount, and the pendulum was ticking over nicely, but the hands on the clock were still showing a few minutes before 1:30.
I manually advanced the hands to 1:30, and thankfully, the music box started. When I advanced the hands to 2:00, the cuckoo also activated. So I finished feeding the cats, then finished advancing the clock until it read the correct time. Then I went back to bed.
At 11:00 a.m. I was awakened by the sound of the clock striking the hour. Can a cuckooo clock maven explain to me what would cause such behavior in this machine?
TIA