La Crosse Technology 404-1235UA-SS 14 Inch UltrAtomic Analog Stainless Steel Wall Clock

Set up was easy and quick having only to wait a few minutes before receiving the WWVB signal from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Fort Collins, CO. The clock is clear and visible from a distance. It is well made from stainless steel and doesnt look or feel cheap. Definitely worth the money and investment. I only used two "C" batteries as not to make it to heavy to hang. Clock runs extremely quiet except for a clunk sound every 15 seconds that you can barely hear. It's been working flawlessly and keeping accurate time. I'm very happy with this clock and recommend it for looks, quality and accuracy.

First off, when I opened the box, the second hand had fallen off. Maybe they dropped the box. I thought about sending it back, but decided to try to put the hand back on. It took a couple tries to figure out, but the trick is to power it on and let it go to the starting position and then put the second hand on exactly on the 12.After fixing that, it will set itself to atomic time and the hands line up fairly accurately with the indices. It can take 10 minutes or more for it to get the time signal, it is waiting a specific time marker and I guess those come every 15 minutes? I don't know the spacing, but it will get it and then set itself.This best thing is, unlike the atomic clocks I have had in the past, this one really works. It will receive the signa anywhere in the house as far as I can tell. The older atomic clocks I've had worked so poorly with reception that I gave up on them. This one really works.The clock is decent looking, but it is plastic and cheap, and priced accordingly. The tech is solid and well executed given the options you have on the back and the ability to add extra batteries. It is a solid 5. But, I wish more expensive quartz wall clocks had this newer atomic reception ability. I would so buy one. Even a nice digital clock with this tech would be great. But I would never buy a clock with the old tech after having this one. This is pretty cool having a precise time reference with which to set my watches to and not have to go to my phone.

I absolutely love this clock!I love the brushed metal housing and bezel instead of plastic. It feels substantial and has heft and is not flimsy. The clock is BIG (14" diameter!) and can be seen easily across the room. It also has standard Arabic numerals and not the dreaded Roman numerals. Don't know why people are enamored with X's and I's when one simple character will suffice (and there's numbers at all positions... I hate when they leave some or all blank).But my favorite thing about the clock is the really cool precision clockwork and how the hands line up with the dial face properly. That's always been a weird thing with me. When the second hand is on the 12, the minute hand better be right on top of a minute! And at noon and midnight, ALL THREE hands should be aligned right on the 12! Is it just me???But this clock is dead-on accurate. Since I hung it, I have literally come out and watched the minute hand move exactly 1/4 of the way between minutes every 15 seconds, to be right on top of the proper minute as the second hand reaches the top. You may call it OCD... I call it demanding an accurate clock and this one is.The atomic feature is sweet. As soon as you have the batteries in, it will start to do its thing. Some other review here thought there was something wrong because it sat at the initial preset spot for too long. Having worked with WWV timing signals, I know the clock needs to wait for a very specific time-sync signal that only comes once every so often. If you missed the last one before your clock enters the initial time set, you'll have to be patient and wait for the next one (or your clock is in a bad radio spot and may have missed the signal altogether). Mine set itself fine within an hour, and is literally in sync with my cell phone time.There are switch settings on the back for daylight savings if your area uses that insane archaic nonsense. There's also a neat battery-saving feature that disables the second hand at 11:00 PM, and comes back on at 5 or 6 AM (I forget which). The batteries are 'C' size (which seems odd these days) and you have the option to put either 2 or 4 batteries in. With 4, you won't need to change them for a very long time.Another person asked if it "ticked" or made noise. Granted, I don't have the best hearing, but I can barely hear the second hand ticking when I stand right under it. I sometimes hear the minute hand move its quarter-tic between minutes, but again I have to be right under it. Maybe if you're really OCD about quiet in your bed at night and have great hearing, you might have issues (I mean with the clock tick... your personal 'tic' about 'ticks' notwithstanding... I have my own with clock hands but don't care about the tick!)I like this clock so much I bought another for the kitchen. In a year where I've returned a lot of stuff that just wasn't the quality I felt it should be, I'm really happy with this simple clock that works - and works well - and looks great.

These pick up the radio time signal very quickly, in an area of the north-east US that other clocks take days (at best) to receive, and doesn't require any special placement (walls toward Colorado, etc) - it "just works".The C-cell batteries (2 required, 2 additional optional), combined with the option to stop the second hand between 11pm and 5am, means not needing to change batteries for YEARS.Overall, the quality of the electronics in these units are outstanding.However... the physical assembly process leaves rather a lot to be desired - on most units (I have installed quite a few now), the second hand does not line up with the hour/minute hands (the 12:00 positions are different), and the clock face doesn't line up with EITHER set of hands. So at any "round number" of hours/minutes/seconds, the hands end up pointing randomly between tick marks.Depending on how much this bothers you, and what effort you want to put in, you can rotate the mechanism slightly to align the hour/minute hands, and remove/replace the second hand to align it.(Of course, I'm sure that doing that will technically void any warranty.)It's a shame that the truly excellent electronics work is marred by basic assembly errors.