California Clock Company Kit Cat Klock Moving Retro Clock

by California Cloak Company

Product Features

• *Brand New iN box
• The clock is powered by one "AA" battery.
• *Wagging tail and rolling eyes have made this clock famous!

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 2.5 x 4 x 15.5 inches ; 1.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000FMT2JI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,571 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)

Product Description

Kit-Cat Clock! Since the mid 1930's - in the midst of the Great Depression - the Kit-Cat Clock has been inspiring hope and entertaining the world with his rolling eyes and wagging tail. Kit-Cat continues to bring joy to millions. Today Kit-Cat is a positive character enriching the lives of many with his optimistic philosophy on life.This Kit-Kat Clock with rolling eyes and wagging tail runs on 2-C batteries (not included). Measures 15.5in. high x 4in. wide x 2.5in. deep.Click on inset image to see clock move.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's the best!, August 6, 2007

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KAT (Nyack, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: California Clock Company Kit Cat Klock Moving Retro Clock (Toy)

I love my Kit Kat Clock. When I couldn't get the tail and eyes to swing, I checked the website. They recommended that you open the back and loosen the tiny (and I mean tiny) screw just to the left of the pendulum workings. loosen it a half a turn and VOILA! the tail and eyes now move easily.

36 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A Delightful Relic of Scandalously Poor Design., January 10, 2008

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B. W. Roberts "BWR" (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: California Clock Company Kit Cat Klock Moving Retro Clock (Toy)

The familiar, smiling feline resembling Felix the cat is a pop-culture classic. Created by the California Clock Company (now in Portland, Oregon) in 1932, the Kit Cat Clock sports a unique art-deco style, delightful smile, and big kitty eyes, whose cuteness continues to make sales. The company claims to sell an average of one kitty every three minutes. That works out to about 175,000 kitties per year. That would make for about 13 million kitties total, if the statistic holds for the entire 3/4-century lifetime of the product.

If this is true, it is an utterly astonishing result, because the quality of this clock is abysmal.

To be fair, the clock does keep good time. But wall clocks that keep good time are available on Amazon for $3.99 -- you want the Kit Cat clock because it's so darn charming! Unfortunately, the charming tail and eye mechanism that this clock boasts just doesn't work. The failure isn't due to any particular oversight on the part of the California Clock Co.; it's just a scandalously poor design.

If you manage to get the back cover off the Kit Cat without breaking it (and you'll need to anyway to install two C batteries), watch out for the messy hot-glue job holding the insides together. The kitty's guts consist of a clock casing, a battery casing, and the eye-tail mechanism. The eyes and tail connect (rather precariously) to a thin plastic rod with a magnet on one end. Astoundingly, this magnet is the only design feature that keeps the eyes and tail moving. There is another magnet in the body of the clock, so that if you give the tail a little push, the repulsive force between the magnets makes the mechanism move back and forth for longer than it would otherwise.

However, the tail does not swing once per second, because it is not connected to the clock. As the above description suggests, the eye-tail mechanism is not even connected to the batteries. This means that doesn't swing continuously, but comes to a stop after a little while. Indeed, this design could never have a continuously swinging tail, unless perpetual motion were possible!

As far as anyone knows, perpetual motion is impossible. One can only hope that the perpetual sales of the Kit Cat Clock is impossible too, unless the California Clock Co either improves their design, or lowers the price of the Kit Cat to the earthly realm of the other low-quality clocks on Amazon.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Cat Clock, September 21, 2006

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J. E. Kitchen "Book Lover" (Lock Haven, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: California Clock Company Kit Cat Klock Moving Retro Clock (Toy)

It is cute but MUCH smaller than I was expecting. I feel the dimensions should be posted on the site so people know what to expect. I would send it back but I really want this for my daughter for Christmas. She has always wanted one. But this little kitty ending up costing me almost $50. I expected more.