The cuckoo clock was intended to be a contemporary reference to the Renaissance period, not an exhaustive assessment of what Switzerland contributed to the present day.
replyIn the flow of comments;
reply and nothing of note has happened in any of them since World War II.
Further again, that quote appears to address present era Switzerland 500 years after the infamous time of the House of Borgia.
1/ The referenced quote in the parent comment is clear (while false - more below) to everybody but you. Being taken from a movie, it cannot be germane to the present flow of comments, you claim to reply to. Rather the quote reads: "By the time in Italy [this], in Switzerland [that]."
reply2/ The OP is about San Marino; the quoted excerpt is referencing the European city states of San Marino, Liechtenstein, Monaco, and Andorra; hence the flow of comments you point at is not concerned with Switzerland per se.
3/ The referenced quote is nevertheless false, because cuckoo clocks were invented in the Dresden in early 1600s; only popular culture associate them to Switzerland.
According to co-writer Graham Greene (who retired to Switzerland) they had been importing the clocks from Bavaria
replyhttps://www.laphamsquarterly.org/politics/miscellany/history...
It’s important to note that Switzerland has produced these things at least partially through the grace of the countries surrounding it.
replyThings would be very different in Switzerland if it bordered the Eastern Bloc or the Mediterranean Sea.
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