This beautiful clock is a retro classic, featuring gold Arabic numbers, Art Deco–styled hands, and a mechanical Westminster chiming movement.
The first photo is very similar, but not identical with the second photo displayed on this site. Look at the 8 hour mark to see the design difference. What you will get is the clock displayed in the Second photo, which is more elegant, in my opinion. This clock does not take 2 "C" batteries, as the title misrepresents it. It takes 2 AA batteries. The significance is that the older 2 C batteries model had a turn knob adjustable chime volume that you could turn it down to a whisper. This model has only two settings for the volume (well, three actually) - very loud, loud, and off! The very loud chime setting comes out with a background "hissing" noise, which is pretty bothersome to put up with in an almost $500 quartz clock. This is the main reason why I took a star off this review. Otherwise, the quality of the finished wood material is impeccable, true to its claimed German manufacture provenance. For whatever it's worth, I received my clock shipped from someone "Sharon" from a "Clockworks Warehouse" in Amherst, Virginia.
The instructions that this clock comes with are very poor! They are obviously translated via seemingly a translator engine that uses uncommon words like "Implementation" instead of "Setup". Again, here too, it wrongly states to insert 2 C batteries, which makes it obvious that the instructions guide is a reuse.
This is the second clock that I got as a replacement from Wayfair for the first one, which chimed only thru the 10th hour, completely bypassing the 11 and 12 o'clock. This clock comes with misaligned arms right out of the box. Both the minute and the hour arm point 2 to 3 minutes to the left of the 12 o'clock position. You will be tempted to align both arms to point to the 12 o'clock position, however, you should instead insert the batteries and let the clock work its way thru the first hour until the minute arm passes the one o'clock position. During this first hour pass, the clock will chime out of synch, confusingly. The chime shall synchronize with the clock movement only after the minute arm passes the one o'clock position for the first time. After you are satisfied that the minute arm is synchronized with the chime correctly, go ahead and carefully push the hour arm forward using your finger to align it to the corresponding hour mark.
I am still unable to switch the chime to the silent mode during night hours. Switching the chime from the "sun" to the "moon" setting, does not have any effect in neither the Westminster and the Bim-bam chime settings.
The mid-century design of this clock closely matches the original Hermle of the 1930's in Germany is the sentimental reason why I like this product. However, I am still mulling over to return it for a refund 10 days after receiving the replacement. At almost $500, I would expect it to work and sound much better.. Vee. Brunswick, GA. Wed Dec 03 2025
