Customer Reviews

Atomix 542 - 12" Cherry Finish Atomic Clock

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I have owned the Atomix Clock for over 2 months. The clock would die after a week of use. It seems that the battery gets drained fairly quickly (I have been feeding it a single fresh AA alkaline battery each week). It's possible that this is just an isolated case. What really disturbs me is that my requests for support, through voice and email, have gone unanswered - when calling their 1-800 support number, you are put into a voice mailbox; their online email support promises a 24-hour turnaround. Thus far, I have not heard back from them. This is rather pathetic.

If you are looking for a sharp, well built clock for your office this isn't the one. It works as advertised but I was surprised at the shoddy workmanship and finish on the bezel. The joints have huge gaps in them and the wood has multiple nicks & scratches as well as a very poor finish. Mine is going out in the barn where it will fit in quite well.

Final update: I called the company that makes this clock and told them about the battery eating nature of the thing. They gave me an RMA number and shipped me a new clock which has been working fine for the last two weeks and has a much nicer fit and finish.

I have owned the Atomix Clock for over 2 months. The clock would die after a week of use. It seems that the battery gets drained fairly quickly (I have been feeding it a single fresh AA alkaline battery each week). It's possible that this is just an isolated case. What really disturbs me is that my requests for support, through voice and email, have gone unanswered - when calling their 1-800 support number, you are put into a voice mailbox; their online email support promises a 24-hour turnaround. Thus far, I have not heard back from them. This is rather pathetic.

I've owned this clock for 15 months now. It is well made and surprisingly durable (I dropped it from a height of about 7 feet to the floor and it never stopped.) I purposely let the battery drain down-the second hand moves only every two seconds to show the battery is low. It took 13 months before that happened. My problem with it is with it updating to and from daylight savings time. The first time it took nearly a day and a half for it to decide to fall back to standard time (it actually goes ahead eleven hours). Come daylight savings in the spring I eventually gave up and took the battery out and put it back in again just to kick start the time change. This past fall it seem to work great. I got up in the morning and it was on standard time. I was so happy. Then the next day it decided to jump back to daylight savings time again. What was that about!? Overall I like the clock. It is dead accurate most of the time. Once in a while I'll catch it jumping ahead a few seconds or running full speed around twelve hours plus. (It does that to fall back a few seconds.) If you are a stickler with accurate time this clock will have you happy most days of the year.

We have this clock now for about a month and it is functiong
perfectly. It seems always a bit funny/odd to me how radio-controlled clocks have to be 'initialized'. This one was overall
quite easy to get synchronized with the radio signal. I followed
the instructions and used the nice feature of 'signal-strength'
testing which lets you know if you have a reasonable chance at
a particular spot in the house for getting a good radio signal.
It synchronized the first night (living in the East Bay Area, CA). I like that one can choose so many different looks for this
clock. Supposedly it will adjust for daylight saving time. That will be a pleasant feature. It is nice to have a clock that shows the exact time.

I have owned this product for a couple of months. It is the only Atomic Clock that looks good enough to display in the living room. Ours is hung above the fireplace. It sets itself, and has worked perfectly every day. It's great to have one clock in the house which you know displays the exact time - every time - every day.

I have had this clock for over six months. It worked right out of the box and has never given me any problems. It is extremely accurate. I am completely satisfied.