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Fun aside, if you buy a cheap wall clock from a big box store, you can often swap out the clock movement with a vastly superior one for very little money. A nic
by jacobkg 7y ago
Fun aside, if you buy a cheap wall clock from a big box store, you can often swap out the clock movement with a vastly superior one for very little money. A nice Seiko movement with a sweep second hand can be had for under $20.
- brianwawok 7y agoBut why would you want a nice movement on a cardboard clock? At that point you spend another few dollars for a nicer package.
- starpilot 7y agoIs the cheap quartz movement that it comes with insufficiently accurate?
- Xamayon 7y agoAccuracy is mostly fine in my experience, but the battery life is often poor and they tend to be relatively loud. I like quiet, so the noise is more than enough reason to swap the movement when easy imho.
- rladd 7y agoI have a $12 Ikea clock that looks rather like a Swiss train clock (not exactly of course) and which keeps nearly perfect time and runs for over a year on one battery. It is miles better than the $5 Ikea clock, but I see no reason to pay more since the $12 one looks good and runs perfectly well.
- muzika 7y agoOne year on a battery is nothing to be proud of :)
- exhilaration 7y agoBut how do you that Seiko movement you're buying isn't counterfeit?
- tomcam 7y agoNot trying to be snarky, genuinely interested: what are the advantages of the superior movement?
- tartoran 7y agoIt lasts forever
- Danieru 7y agoReading the sales data: no tick sounds. Presumably less drift as well. That most people do not care about the quality of the movement is why Wal-Mart has lots of shells with the same movements.
- ngorge 7y agoThe gears are manufactured to better tolerances. This means they make a lot less noise. A cheap movement can be heard across the room, a Seiko is silent. Because the parts fit better, there is less friction. Less of a load on the motor means the battery lasts much longer in a Seiko. They also keep time better.
- halbritt 7y agoA great deal of their reputation is based on their ability to produce precise quartz movements, ostensibly resistant to temperature changes, etc.
- ryanmercer 7y ago>This means they make a lot less noise. A cheap movement can be heard across the room, I laughed out loud as I can hear my alarm clock ticking 8ft away thunk, thunk, thunk, thunk quite loudly. You can actually hear it from the living room if the TV is off, perhaps I should look into something made a bit better.