A wall clock in one's office is, studies have shown, looked at an average of 30-50 times a day. A watch on one's wrist, also known as a wristwatch, probably looked at a similar number of times. A clock on one's computer is certainly noticed, but at least current adult creatures of habit still look at [...]
A person’s home is meant to reflect who they are – their personality and what is important to them in terms of design, color, and style. When you walk into someone’s home you should immediately have a sense of who they are and what they represent. For many homeowners, the use of clocks as part of [...]
Do you spell tabletop clocks as Mantle Clocks or Mantel Clocks? An interesting language dynamic which affects how people buy and sell clocks has to do with this often seen simple variation on the spelling of either mantel clocks or mantle clocks. Both are correct. Major clock manufacturers use both spelling all the time. A simple [...]
There is probably no single day of the year when clocks - whether grandfather clocks or wall clocks or mantel clocks - get more views than on New Years Eve. The same holds true for wristwatches and other timepieces, whether tuning in on television to celebrate in cities around the country and world, or celebrating with [...]
Just this morning we got a call from a lady who wanted to know if she could buy a clock she had seen somewhere once before which had twelve different types of frogs pictured on each hour, and with a different frog sound chimed on each hour. Talk about a niche clock! But it got us [...]
A question we receive on a somewhat regular basis, especially from the younger generation, is whether watches and clocks risk becoming obsolete as cell phones, iPods, and other handheld devices emerge as omnipresent devices. Our short answer is an emphatic NO. Aside from the obvious decorative aspects of clocks and the personal style and accessory nature [...]
Well, Thanksgiving has now come and gone, and the crazy mad rush shopping season has begun. While most people are thinking about ipods, or plasma or HDTV televison sets, there are many businesses and individuals who are also looking to clocks as anything from corporate business gifts to prized possessions to be given as presents for [...]
An unfortunate group which is a very small percent of clocks shoppers, but probably have 90% of any "bad" experiences that are out there are customers whom really have not given any thought to what they have ordered or why they are ordering it. ALSO, many clock shoppers tell us they were first lured by cheap [...]
With the addition of Schubert's Ode to Joy and Beethoven's Ave Maria Chimes, one will soon be able to listen to most all of the clocks chimes currently available. These two newest clocks chimes add to the historically more famous, or at least utilized, chimes, which are the Westminster Chimes, St Michaels Chimes and the Whittngton [...]
OK, so I think I am an expert on clocks and time. I advise people in Companies on how to adapt their time systems to changes in Daylight Savings Time, and it has even become slightly complicated, perhaps even requiring a so-called expert, or so I might have called myself before today. A good chunk of [...]