Maple's Clock TCL06-333 Moving Gear Desktop Clock

by Maple's Clock

Product Features

• Moving gear desktop clock is a great gift for anyone who loves working with their hands
• Perfect for the home, office or work shop
• Constructed from high-quality ABS plastic
• Lightweight, two-pound clock is easy to move
• Measures 12 x 13 inches (HxW) and powered by two C-batteries

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000KPQ8YM
• Item model number: TCL06-333
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38,227 in Automotive (See Top 100 in Automotive)

Product Description

The Maple's Clock TCL06-333 Moving Gear Desktop Clock is a great gift for your favorite auto enthusiast, mechanical engineer, or anyone else who loves working with their hands. Perfect for the home, office, or workshop, this unique desk clock is constructed from high-quality ABS plastic and is designed to stand up to years of use. The Maple's Clock gear clock serves as an interesting conversation starter, as well as an exotic, reliable timepiece. This lightweight, two-pound desk clock is easy to move, measures 12 x 13 inches (HxW) and is powered by two C-batteries (1.5-volts).

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very soothing to a gearhead, September 13, 2009

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Stuart|Anne (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Maple's Clock TCL06-333 Moving Gear Desktop Clock (Misc.)

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Its difficult to understand this clock if you haven't seen it run, so here you go. When we first got it, it was jerky and neither ran evenly, correctly, nor quietly. A bit of inspection showed a wire from a battery was interfering with one of the gears. Moving that down, out of the way, has completely solved that problem. It now runs smoothly, correctly, and quietly.

The wire problem does highlight the only drawback, which is that the outer rider gears are being driven by the motor that drives the hands. So if something gets shoved up against it to block the outer gears, the clock will not tell time correctly. It also makes a click-click noise when this happens, so I've always noticed, but it could easily happen that you didn't.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun to look at... neat conversation piece., April 1, 2008

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A. Shea (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maple's Clock TCL06-333 Moving Gear Desktop Clock (Misc.)

Bought for my Asperger's son since he is really into motion and gears. He seems to like it. First, it's much bigger than I expected, about the diameter of a soccer ball and close to 3 inches wide. It's a bit on the bulky size, so make sure you have room for it. Like I noted earlier, the clock was larger than I expected. Takes two C batteries. The actual gears are made of silver plastic, not metal. It is very quiet and the gears move pretty slow. You have to look closely to see them move. It actually is very neat to watch. It would be a conversation piece for an office. Looks just like the picture.

The only big con for me is that it's not made of metal and the silver plastic, although seems pretty durable, looks a little inexpensive. I think this clock would be worth about $20.00-$25.00 at most.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars looks awesome in the garage, April 28, 2008

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M&M "moon dune" (TX) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Maple's Clock TCL06-333 Moving Gear Desktop Clock (Misc.)

this is a great product if you want a cool looking clock. Being a mechanical engineer, I really liked this clock. Looks great in my garage. Its a bit noisy, so I would recommend not to have it in the living room (and that is why I rated it with 4 stars).