Acctim 74314 Parona, Red Radio Controlled Wall Clock, 23cm Diameter

Good size, easy to read, radio controlled,so always at correct time.Battery powered.

## its Claimed it connects at 1am - 3am - 5am - 1pm - 5pm - 9pm - they also advice the signal is stronger at Night !!!! ## - as far as I am aware ' the signal comes from The National Physical Laboratory time signal Anthorn Radio Station near Anthorn, Cumbria so if you live in the south for better reception it would make sense if the clock is near a window facing North. I live in a Tower Block that faces East so when setting up I had it close to a window and it did correctly adjust to the correct time. The clock face is nice and very easy to read even from a distance - it will be interesting to see how it deals with BST 26 March 2023 - I suspect I will have to move it close to a North facing window ' but time will tell ' - well worth the money. ## a late update - the clock is now in the location I prefer ' which is 5 feet from a window and the other day ' it corrected itself at 5pm ' so it does look the radio signal is stronger than I expected ' ##

It remained accurate for 4.5 years. It wasn't too loud but you could hear it if you wanted to. I kept it in my garage so there was always some road noise around. My eyesight isn't as good as it was now but I could still read this without my glasses.I bought this is 2019, it stopped moving in 2024. I tried changing the battery and it went to midnight and never moved again. Fur the price I paid, I think it lasted well enough.

Love this.It sets itself and corrects each day too so its always spot on time. I can check it against my watch which gets a time signal from Mainflingen Germany and the weather station that gets one from Cumbria where this clock receives from too. Its always to the second accurate.Nicely made, accurate and usual Acctim standard. Recommended.

I was after a radio controlled clock for my kitchen. It seems to work fine, and is a nice red colour plus the numbers are very clear.

The clock arrived promptly. I inserted a battery, hooked the clock onto the bedroom wall (where my old clock had previously hung), wondered off for a while and upon return half hour or so later the clock had set itself up and was showing the time. Great! I like just about everything about it - the clear numbers (and I mean numbers not Roman numerals or dashes) the white background and the good size face.Come bedtime we jumped into bed and became suddenly aware of the loud tick. The plasterboard wall must have been acting like a drum-skin. My partner could not tolerate it and I found it a bit of a nuisance so I had to drag it off the wall and swap it with our silent kitchen clock. Both clocks have a red surround and are of similar size so there is not much difference. The kitchen has a solid wall so I sit here writing, listening to a gentle tick. Twenty four hours on, I am happy with the clock and am looking forward to not having to touch it for years until the battery dies.Alas, November 2021 and the clock has failed to make the hour adjustment for the second time since purchase - very disappointing. I go on-line to seek the manual to figure out what to do. More grief - the search on the Acctim website tells me the manual for the Acctim Parona 74314 does not exist! So again I take the clock off the wall and fiddle around with the Set, Rec and Reset buttons on the back of the clock. Pressing a toothpick into the little button named Set gets the hands moving. I watch and wait for the hands to move to the new time then remove the toothpick. With a bit of luck you've got it right, otherwise, do it again. I have reduced my star rating from 4 to 3. I still like the clock despite its shortcomings.Incidentally, the assessment of "sheerness" aspect I take to mean an assessment of the clarity of view of the clock-face, consequently the answer is "yes" there is a very clear, unobstructed view of the clock-face.Well here we are at 4th January 2022 and the clock has gone up the creek. Yesterday it was a half hour fast, today it is half an hour slow. I assumed the battery had come to its end of life, so slipped a new one in. Pressed the set button with the tooth pick and all hands moved to 1200. In theory the atomic update will occur at every odd hour (1,3,5 o'clock etc) so I waited. Alas, it did not work - not on any of the odd hours. It is possible to get the thing going by sticking the toothpick into one of the buttons on the clock back and It is now running at 20 minutes slow. I guess it is possible to time it right to get it going on time soon after 12, but I did not get it quite right, hence the 20 minutes discrepancy . I was hoping for a catchup at the next odd hour, but NO. The fact is it is now more of a challenge than setting up the time using the old cog method of rotating the hands. So much for my hopes of not having to touch the thing for years. Blimey, after just writing the end of the last sentence the clock has stopped completely - 9 minutes past 4. And suddenly it has just started up again. It's going to ba a bin job for this one and the next one is not going to be an Acctim.

Excellent , does not drop , keeps the signal perfect timekeeping

We've had this clock for a while.. On the plus side you'll likely get a couple of years out of it.1. Twice a year you have to take it down, reset it and leave it in a window for 24 hours so it can change for BST. This is not automatic.2. Sometimes it gets the wrong time when you do 1. and have to repeat.This one we have now never shows the correct time.. it's between 6 and 10 minutes out, and there's no manual adjust.. alas it's going in the bin.