Sharp Glow in the Dark Atomic Analog Wall Clock - 12" Clock with Black Frame - Sets Automatically - Battery Operated - Easy to Read - Easy to Use – See Day or Night!

I have two of these Sharp Atomic clocks and honestly love them. I really hate resetting clocks for daylight savings (why is that even still a thing?) and these set themselves. I have two notes though. The first is that they tend to set themselves in the middle of the night. I work nights, so looking up to find my clock spinning around like it's possessed is a little strange, even after several years. The other thing they both do is in the middle of the night, at the top of the hour like 1, 2, or 3 am, the second hand will stop at 12 for five or ten minutes. It still tracks minutes perfectly, but from :00 to :05 or :10, the second hand is frozen at 12. I have no idea why they do this, couldn't find anything about it anywhere on Google. But, it resumes and keeps perfect time, so it's just an oddity. I'm pretty sensitive to ticking noises, and I cannot hear this clock tick unless my head is right next to it and the room is quiet. 15 feet away on the wall, I don't hear it at night at all, ever. It's a good size I can see across a fairly large room in my home (open floorplan), but isn't enormous or anything. Very simple, classic looking, easy to read clock face too. I'm poor and $40 is a lot for a wall clock. But I don't have to get out a ladder and reset the damn thing twice a year and I find that cost was absolutely worth it to me.

This black wall clock is exactly what I was looking for. The simple, modern design goes perfectly with any décor and adds a nice clean look to the room. The numbers are large and easy to read, even from across the room, and the contrast of the black background with the white hands makes it very clear. It’s lightweight but sturdy, and mounting it was quick and easy. The clock runs silently—no annoying ticking—which is a huge plus for bedrooms or offices. I’ve had it running for weeks now, and it keeps perfect time without needing any adjustment. If you’re looking for a functional, stylish, and affordable wall clock, this one checks all the boxes. Great quality for the price!

Operates as.described. Easy to setup. Looks great on the wall! Easy to read with the large numbers. This was a purchase for my mother’s apartment. It looked so nice we wanted to purchase another one for ourselves. The “Atomic Clock “ means you never have to reset it.

This was different. I read the helpful reviews here and when I got it, I put the battery in and watched it run it's hands around and land on the wrong time, so I put it in a southeast facing window and after about 4 hours, voila! Not exactly my phone time but close enough. It looked good on my wall and the time was close enough. And then it started getting dark... darkness is not a friend of this clock. With the black hands, the low light in my living room and the dark gray in the background of the clock, it's like...time flew....right out the window. I could not see what time it was from about 4:30 p.m. until I went ni-nite! And it was not that easy to see in the natural light of daytime! I packed it up and shipped it back. Got one that lights up when it starts getting dark and all is good now. But it's a good clock...

This clock set up automatically overnight exactly as the instructions indicated it was supposed to. It is installed in our kitchen in an easy to view location. Although it does not have luminous hands and dial for night use, the bright white dial and high contrast black hands allow it to be read in low light. Based on experience with another Sharp atomic clock still running flawlessly for over 20 years and counting, we expect this clock to prove to be very reliable.

This thing is total garbage for any price, much less $40, and yes I followed all the instructions. I thought I was paying extra to get something with quality control. Boy was I wrong. When first given batteries, the hands spin for about 3 to 10 minutes to put all three pointed at 12. That works, all hands find 12, which tells me the hands are installed correctly. The clock does find the radio signal, because a few minutes after doing the startup "reset dance" to 12, it will start spinning again to set a different time. All pretty normal, it's using holes in internal cogs to figure out where the hands are. Problem is, it sets itself randomly from 3 hours to 2 hours 40 minutes late for every time zone it can select. If it's 12 Pacific time and you select Pacific time zone using the switch on the back, it sets itself randomly between 2:45 and 3:00. If you select Mountain time, it spins to 4:00 when it's actually supposed to be 1:15. Central, it'll go to 5:00 (when actually 2:15) and Eastern 6:00 (when it's actually 3:15). The minutes hand inaccuracy seems to randomly vary within a 20-minute range each time I tell it to re-synchronize with the radio signal, so you can't even just remember how far off the clock is and compensate. I found the hours hand can be spun on its fitting to fix the hours, which is in itself awful but at least helps fix it. Unfortunately even if I got the hours to set correctly from Fort Collins, that random 20-minute variance in the time setting means it's impossible to know how far off the clock is on any given day. The specs say the material is "Silver" which is usually an 'advertising lie' that means zinc, steel, chrome, or some kind of metal or metallic finish. Nope, all plastic with an ugly gray paint, and that plastic isn't even nice plastic. It feels like that soft bendy plastic they make Halloween pumpkin candy baskets out of. As I typed this out I tried using the 'Wave' button on the back one last time just to be sure. This forces the clock to reset and look for the radio signal again. It did the same thing as the four other tries. All hands go to 12, then it sits for a few minutes, then the hands start moving again. They spin up to the current time, then blow right past it and stop 3 hours in the future. Except this time the minute hand went to a time that's 15 minutes slow. Well, what if I just don't use the radio setting (that was the whole point of paying $40 for a clock)? Nope. Here's how you set it. There's one button you hold down, and while you're holding it down, the minute hand spins. It will only go forward, not backward. When you let go, it stops spinning. And then if it does detect the radio signal again, or whenever you have to change the battery, it will go back to the incorrect time. That means, * If your clock is 5 minutes fast and you want to correct that, you have to hold the Set button down for 10 minutes while the clock slowly spins through all 11 hours and 55 minutes. * If you overshoot that, you have to do it again. * If it ever hears the radio signal, it will reset to the incorrect time and you have to do it again. * If you change the batteries, you have to wait 10 minutes for it to spin to 12, wait 30 minutes for it to hear the radio signal, wait another 10 minutes for it to spin to the time it heard, and then hold the Set button for another 10 minutes to spin it manually, for a grand total of *it takes an ACTUAL HOUR to manually set this clock after changing batteries.* Whoever designed this clock is a sadist. Please, do yourself a favor and get something else. It's impossible to make a clock worse than this, so anything else you buy will be better.

Update: I liked the first one so much, I ordered another one with a gray face! If there's one thing I love, it's a functional item that makes my life easier. I hate going around the house twice a year at Daylight Savings time to adjust clocks. This eliminates that! This one is easier than other atomic clocks I've had as well. I just inserted a AA battery, and a few minutes later the clock was synced to the exact time down to the second! What could be easier? It is the perfect size for my kitchen, and is very light so mounting was easy. The large numbers and split hands are both stylish and easy to see. In all, a great value!

I really like the look of this clock—the brushed silver finish is attractive and it fits well in my office. However, even though it’s supposed to set automatically, it’s been losing time. Twice in the past week, it’s ended up about two minutes slow. That may not sound like much, but in my office it matters. Unfortunately, it’s past the return window, so I’ll just live with it for now. Next time, I’ll probably choose a clock I can set myself so I know it will stay accurate.