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Cuckoo clock fanatic Roman Piekarski has 561 clocks and claims to have the world’s largest collection of cuckoo clocks. He owns the Cuckooland Museum in Tabley, near Knutsford, Cheshire, UK.

Mr Piekarski says one of his biggest challenges in owning the clocks is getting ready to spend 12 hours either rewinding or fast-forwarding his collection of cuckoo clocks when British Summer Time begins or ends.

Typically he says it takes him about 12 hours to reset the time on all of his 561 clocks each time the time changes.

Mr Piekarski runs the Cuckooland Museum with his brother, Maz. Both men trained as clock-makers from an early age, starting in Manchester when they were 15. They started their interest in cuckoo clocks soon after and set up the museum in 1990 after they had built up their world class collection of clocks.

Some of their cuckoo clocks are very rare:
- They have antique clocks from the Black Forest.
- Their collection has clocks with quails and monks playing bells instead of the usual cuckoos.
- They also have a ‘cuckoo and echo’ clock that emulates the whistles and bellows a cuckoo makes in the wild and is thought to be one of only six in the world.

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