El reloj de cuco (nombre usado en España por definición del diccionario de la Real Academia Española), popularmente conocido en el mundo de habla hispana como "reloj cucú", es un tipo de reloj provisto generalmente de péndulo y gong, que se caracteriza por tener una abertura por la cual, cada media hora, sale un autómata con forma de pájaro que generalmente recuerda a un cuclillo y que por esto emite un canto, cuyos sonidos se asemejan a la onomatopeya «cucú». El mecanismo para producir dicho sonido fue instalado en la mayoría de los relojes de cuco en el siglo XVIII y ha permanecido hasta el presente casi sin modificaciones.

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A cuckoo clock is a typically pendulum-regulated clock that strikes the hours with a sound like a common cuckoo's call and has an automaton cuckoo bird that moves with each note. Some move their wings, open/close the beak while leaning forward, whereas others only the bird's body is leaned forward. The mechanism to produce the cuckoo call has been in use since the middle of the 18th century and has remained almost without variation until the present. It is unknown who invented it and where the first one was made. It is thought that much of its development and evolution was made in the Black Forest area in southwestern Germany (State of Baden-Württemberg), the region where the cuckoo clock was popularized. The cuckoo clocks were exported to the rest of the world from the mid 1850s on. Today, the cuckoo clock is one of the favourite souvenirs of travelers in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. It has become a cultural icon of Switzerland (Beat Stoehr).

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