If you plan on putting this on your night stand next to your bed, think twice. It's not a quiet clock. When it's silent, you can hear the gears moving and when time changes it lets you know. For some reason on the clock I got, every time the minutes gets to :40 it clicks every few second until about :45. Since I put this in my living room and the TV is usually on, it's no big deal, but I could not imagine trying to sleep with this thing next to me. Looks wise, it's stylish and interesting. A little bigger out of the box than I was expecting. Solid construction, pretty heavy. Other than the noise it makes, forest purchase.

I put the clock in the waiting room of a small law office. it looks great.the prior reviews about the noise caused by the flip down numbers and gears is true. you can hear every time the minute changes. you can also hear the gears grinding inside the clock. these are all non-issues for me.it uses a 1D battery. time adjustment is located on the right side --on the minute side of the clock--and its pretty easy to adjust.

Noisy. I guess I received one of the clocks with the noisy gearbox. It "clicks" eack time a number falls, which is to be expected but the gears emit a constant grinding. It's in my home office, not my bedroom so I can live with it but if it were anywhere near my bed, it wouldn't work fo rme. It's sitting on my "retro" bookshelf between my Lava Lamp and Plasm Ball.It arrived it two days (Amazon Prime), and once I installed a battery that wasn't dead, came right to life. Initially, the hours didn't drop right with the zero minute but a small nudge on the pointer that holds the hours fixes that. It's only been a day but the time seems right on. Overall, I'm happy with the clock. Just wish it ran quieter.

+Unique, vintage look+Big numbers, can read from across the room+I can't read the other kind of clock so I love the numbers, lol ;)-Kind of cheap materials, the metal is actually just metal-painted plastic, but you can only tell that if you're holding it, so I don't care too much about that.-Some people might find the noise a negative, but we've never minded it, and we keep it right in our living/ dining room, where we always are. It's a constant, fast ticking, so you have to decide if you would go crazy with that or not. There have been a few times when I noticed it; I put on some music and it was fine.

It is a very cool clock,although it produces a grinding noise.I would still recommend it if not too close from your ears.

Very cool clock! Got this for my 12 year old son that thinks the vintage flip-number alarm clocks are cool. This isn't an alarm clock but IS very cool and is kind of an eclectic/unique thing to have on your desk, on a shelf, wherever. I agree with the other reviewers - it's a conversation piece.My only complaint is that the box the clock was in was totally beat up and the clock is slightly damaged (tilted to the side). The Amazon box was fine, but the clock box itselt (that was inside the Amazon box) looks like it took a pretty hard fall at a warehouse somewhere and the clock was damaged.Not going to return it, it works fine and my husband was able to bend it back, but would have been nice to get it in perfect condition.