Technical point of order: The Swiss did not produce the cuckoo clock. That was the krauts.In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced
Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. ”
Second point: The Swiss hate people suggesting they invented the cuckoo clock.
Third point: I don't like the Swiss, so I refer to the cuckoo clock whenever I meet one.