*Ticking* Wall clock ?

How rapidly do you want it to tick? Several times per second? Or just once a second? Quite a lot of wall clocks which are a large face with a small mechanism glued to the back emit a loud tick every second: we have one which does it and it'd actually quite annoying.

Do you want an audible tick or just a second hand the moves by 1 second at a time?

Try a search for analogue RC clocks. Two that I have full numerals and the second had moves in 1 second ticks albeit with a barely audible tick noise. Being radio controlled the time is kept accurate.

Also having seen a potential candidate on, say. amazon see if there is a Youtube video showing the setup or operation.

Why not just replace the Movement (this is DIY)

There is usually a trim setting somewhere in the works calibrated in seconds a day or similar. Jewellers screwdriver to adjust.

Are your sure you want a ticking one? If so just look for a cheap clock mechanism on Amazon that doesn't claim to be smooth and silent!

Unless I'm mistaken, the ticking sound from my wall clocks come more from the motion of the second hand than from the mechanism. As you say, any cheap clock should replicate this.

I can't see why anyone would want that annoying repetitive noise. I deliberately changed the mechanism for silent on every single clock I have (99p each from China on Ebay).

So sell it to the OP and buy one that does not annoy you:-)

Luckily, so is ours and was 'converted' from a basic battery-quartz clock into a radio one (I just changed the mec).

If I'm ever staying somewhere new and there is a 'ticking' clock in the bedroom I have to either stop it (take the battery out) or put it elsewhere.

It's white noise that masks my Tinnitus, not something as rhythmic as a clock. ;-(

That said, I can't remember the last time I slept in a kitchen. ;-)

Cheers, T i m

Assuming the clock makes a tick once a second, i.e. the electronics drive the hands, and not a mechanical clock which gets wound periodically by the battery, you can buy crystals for the electronics from ebay.

I bought a packet of 20 crystals with a stated adequate tolerance for £1.18, to substitute for the ones in my £1 Chinese watches which lost or gained 1 minute a day. I also used one for a slightly drifting PC time display.

Ours was a wedding present. I have had to change the movement on it, but only once.

It's not that it's particularly nice or anything, it's just that we're used to it.

This year BTW is our Ruby Wedding...

Andy

Our living room clock (proper clockwork) ticks away. It also chimes the hour and all the quarters. It would probably drive you up the wall :)

SteveW

Some of the ones the RNIB stock seem to be Old School as it were, with large clear figures. Not up to speed with the current stock. I find it hard to imagine nobody makes these any more myself. I think you need to ignore ticking and just by a battery powered wall clock. Does it really have to tick? I have one from Jersey Pottery but the fact that its mounted on china makes the ticking rather annoying! Brian

Thanks for the suggestions.

SWMBO likes a ticking clock. But for myself, I have to do a collection of eye drops during the day, and I count the ticks to know I've held my eyes closed for the recommended time. It's the lowest-effort solution and I'm not minded to change.

The problem is that a lot of manufacturers seem to make it a selling point that their clocks don't tick, which pollutes the search results. Because while you and I know *exactly* what a search for "ticking wall clocks" should return, the moronic algorithms masquerading as Googles "AI" don't. But that's a long term gripe.

Looking at what I've got, I can't see any obvious "way in". But I'm guessing the drifting time is due to mechanical wear and tear, and not easily correctable, even if I could somehow speed it up 1s/6hours or whatever is needed.

I guess I'll have to trawl through the results and see if anyone has reviewed one saying it ticks, or asked the question directly.

Crystal ageing. ereplace crystal. But not easy on sub miniature circuitry

Old ones are not that sub miniature but there should be a trimmer capacitor somewhere that should offer some improvement unless it is already at the end stop.

As a general rule the cheaper mechanisms on Amazon are all with tick and the ones which say "silent" or "smooth" moving seconds hand are quiet. Silent smooth moving seconds hand is a selling feature so if they don't claim to have it the chances are good that it ticks every second.

I am pretty sure this one ticks at least the one they supplied me with did (I got one to mend a friends clock a few years back). The hands are not the greatest but it is very cheap. Make sure you pick one with a spindle the right length for the thickness of the face of the clock!

Cheaper it is the less likely to be silent!

I still have the odd surviving balance wheel mechanism that gets a light thump every minute or so but is otherwise silent.

Are there any apps you could load into an old smart phone to do this ?.

Probably plenty. But even were I minded to replace the clock on the wall with such a beast, SWMBO wouldn't be able to see it ...