In search of an heir: enthusiasts are looking for someone to pass on the world's collection of cuckoo clocks

Brothers Roman and Maz Pekarski have spent 50 years searching for the 750 pendulum-driven devices on display at their Cuckooland museum in Cheshire. They are currently looking for heirs to whom they intend to pass their collection after their death.

The Pekarski brothers have no family or descendants, which led them to start looking for someone to take over their watch collection. They hope that heirs will be able to preserve the watch collection, Yahoo News reports.

"I am 71 years old and Maz is 69, and we have no one to leave it to. It's the largest collection in the world - we have 750 of them. It would be great if we could find someone to take it over, it would be really great," said Roman Pekarski.

The brothers became interested in watches when they were teenagers, and after graduating from high school at the age of 15, they became apprentices. However, at the age of 28, Roman was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and told that he would live for three years.

At this time, the brothers go on a journey during which they collected unique watches. It is noted that in this way they tried to outcompete collectors from the United States and Germany, and eventually they managed to assemble the world's largest collection, which they placed in their museum in Tabley, Cheshire.

"When I got MS, I told my brother I was going to do what I do. I wasn't going to get married because I didn't want to burden anyone," Roman said.

However, despite the positive feedback from professionals and visitors, he has not received any offers to accept the collection. He added: "The British Museum contacted us and said: "If we could take your space and put it in our place, that would be the best thing we could do."