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The Rest of the Story...The Lenzkirch Clock Factory, or Aktiengessellschaft fur Ukrenfabrikation, was founded by Eduard Hauser who was born August 21, 1825, the son of a teacher. Eduard Hauser first gained experience making music boxes in 1840 with Johann George Schopperle. Hauser learned many skills related to this apprenticeship, such as metal working, precision mechanical work and the design of musical instruments. During this time he also gained a knowledge of musical composing.
Eduard Hauser, perhaps becoming restless and wanting to extend his mechanical know-how, felt that clockmaking might be a better business in which to be involved. He left the small music box business and studied clockmaking in England, France, and Switzerland.
Hauser felt that if he could put the precision factory methods of the French, English, and Swiss to work for him in the Black Forest, it would certainly make the area competitive with the rest of the precision clockmaking countries. Up to this point in time, Black Forest clocks, such as cuckoos, did not have a good technical basis or reliable reputation for precision.
