WOODEN.CITY Vintage Wooden Clock Kit, 3D Puzzle for Adults

Very unique item. A bit challenging to build. Many reviews illustrated the clock does not run. Mine does. Perfectly. Tips. MEASURE with included tool everything called for. Lightly sand all gears. Peaks and valleys. Although not called for in the instructions, LIGHTLY sand and wax all gear axles. This way, even after assembly you can move gears for best alignment after assembly without taking the whole damn thing apart. THIS was a life saver. CRITICAL but not illustrated in the included instructions. If you're someone who has a plan to do a marathon all day build. You will likely fail to have an operational clock. Take your time. A few minutes a day. Building is the most relaxing part. Double check all your measurements. Use plenty of wax. Burnish into the gear teeth or any wood contacting wood moving parts. A little tweaking was required after assembly. My clock has been running 3 days. It's four minutes fast in 3 days. I'm Still adjusting for speed with the pendulum to fine tune. If you're un familiar with gears and how they work. This probably isn't for you. Trouble shooting will be required. Loved the challenge. The clock looks and works amazing. I dare you to find a clock like this ready to run anywhere. These haven't been made for centuries. You need to build it to own one. Five stars for sure. The video attached was a few hours after assembly. The clock hour hand not adjusted. Just running for functionality.

I love the challenges posed by the designers and manufacturers of wooden mechanical kits, but my favorite is clock kits. The clock kits are so unforgiving that one has to be meticulous every step of the way to make them work as intended. Friction is the worst enemy of clock-making. While the axles for this kit are made of wood, having pre-installed metal bearings in crucial gears helps significantly in this matter. I also liked the complexity of the design, with nine gears in total. The fit is tighter than other kits, but it means a sturdier structure. I used small pliers to help push in the pieces. The instruction is so tiny that I had to use a magnifying glass to see the diagrams. But it didn't bother me as I view decyphering the pictorial instructions - however big or small, clear or vague - as a part of the challenge. This is a working clock that keeps the time relatively accurate. My only reservation is its short running time of about eight hours. I think I will modify it later to double the running time. I enjoyed working on it, but it is a plain clock with no added features. I hope that the designers will consider adding complication features for future releases.

I can’t even begin to tell you strongly enough, DO NOT BUY THIS CLOCK! I’ve put together multiple difficult puzzles like the Galaxy Marble Run and the Dragon Castle and this one is damn near impossible to put together. The instructions are tiny and impossible to understand. Some parts just fall out of the boards while others break trying to get them out. The parts were not where the instructions had them pictured. The parts are very difficult to get in, requiring a hammer on some while others would just fall out. I am returning mine but don’t know if they’ll give me a refund since there is no possible way to get it back in the “box” it comes in. As a veteran to these types of puzzles, I’ve never seen such a disaster and I really wanted to build this clock. I think I will just stick with Wood Trick puzzles from now on!

The clock was fun to put together, doing git a little at a time it took me a month. I have big thumbs and am a little rough, so I broke a couple of pieces, but I was able to glue them back. The boards with the pieces were amazingly organized but the directions could have been a lot better with better pictures. The fit of the pieces was extremely tight, and I had to sand them down to fit. The most important information I can offer is that the gears on mine do not line up to make the clock work. It will not work. It looks great but most likely I with toss it. No use hanging on the wall if it doesn't work

Very difficult build, take your time to do it right at every steps. I did it across 4 days, couple of hours each day. then only find out it only run several second. Then I spend 3 days to fix it. Here is my notes maybe you should pay attention to them 1) I would lucubrate each bearing eye before put them together. 2) level the clock, adjust the clock， use your ear, position it to a good place that it sounds right at both swing end. 3) other then smoothness of gear, you should position each gear at correct depth, See my photo， I had two gears at different height and touch each other, so stuck. 4) don't give up， it will run smooth after repeated runs. My clock runs from several minute, to 20 minutes, I took the pendulum section off so It run faster. It still stuck, then after 2 days， it suddenly just run unstopped.

Fun clock to build. Looks great. I also have the steam punk clock from wooden city but after about a year the holes the axles fit in started getting deformed and it stopped working. This one looks so much better and works like a charm. W wooden model clock from any of the manufacturers, this is not a beginners kit. Clocks are pretty unforgiving. They need to be sanded correctly. The gears need to be spaced properly on their axles. They need to be waxed way more than the instructions show. Basically if any moving parts touch in any way shape of form they need to be sanded smooth and waxed or it wont work. The final assembly is a real challenge. So take your time and enjoy it. The instructions are adequate. Just pay attention to every thing.. Especially where it says to space the gears on the axles. They give you a measuring tool. Make sure you do exactly what it says. So over all well worth the money in my book. Hope this review heps some one.

If you like technical projects this is the one! Bought months ago and still not finished. No regrets, I would buy again!

Its fun to build it, this is my second clock!

Excellente qualité. Je suis incroyablement surpris de la précision des pièces. Je l ai offert a ma femme et c est le cadeau idéal pour s occuper en bricolage. Je recommande a 200%.

Stupendo!!!! è complicato ma il risultato è entusiasmante .Attenzione con un peso di mezzo chilo come consigliato non riesce a vincere l'attrito , occorre almeno un chilo di peso , e va che è una meraviglia .... Certo non lo userei per vedere l'ora per un appuntamento o per guardare l'ora la mattina per andare al lavoro , ma il suo effetto lo fa.....

Eine sehr ansprechende und anspruchsvolle Uhr. Die Aufbauanleitung könnte etwas genauer sein und es ist ratsam besser zweimal hinzuschauen. Wie in den anderen Rezensionen blieb sie auch bei mir alle halbe Stunde stehen. Das Problem lag einfach daran,das ein Zahnrad in der höhe fünf nach zwölf,zehn nach zwölf noch richtig ausgerichtet war.Sie läuft jetzt schon seit zwei Tagen ohne Unterbrechung.Natürlich mit regelmäßigen aufziehen.Ok von der Genauigkeit der Zeitangaben sollte man nicht zu viel verlangen

この手の商品を組み立てるのに「バリはきれいにヤスリ掛け・ワックスは多めに」などの基本はおさえておくのは大前提として、所どころにゆるみや抜け防止のためにくさび止めがあるので、一度組み込んでしまうと分解調整などが非常に困難になります。実際に組み立てた後で上手く動作しなかったので調整が必要でしたが、調整幅が非常に限定されます。 ただ、きちんと調整すれば動作するのでガジェット好きさんや昔ながらのチクタク音好きさんには刺さるんではないでしょうか。 とっても気に入ってます

Take your time!!! After reading lots of reviews,I decided to try this one, with dubious appreciation. First off. 8 HRS build time, Is a joke. More like 24hrs....hands on. Anyways..lets get to the meat of it. The quality of the kit,really is top shelf. Lots if spare parts. Fit is unreal. Sometimes too tight. Assembly of this model is not for the less experienced. It's classified as HARD. I found that a couple deep sockets of different sizes,(10mm and 13m) really helped with tapping the gear assemblies together,so as to allow the axle to pass through. Watch for every nuance,as they are clearly shown on the instructions. Good luck!!! Mine runs!! Oh.. and when ever I made an error...it was always mine. Not the instructions.