Amonev AMOTTMDF01 Clock, Blue Orange

As clocks go, this fails on several fronts.A clock, first and foremost, should enable you to tell the time. This clock gains or loses as much as 10 minutes over the course of 48 hours. This renders it useless on the first front.On the second front, it should enable the telling of time in a way that is not massively distracting. This is absolutely the loudest clock I have ever heard. (Although, to be fair, I haven’t heard many as most don’t make a sound.) I read other reviews that mentioned this, but I simply misunderstood how loud a clock mechanism CAN be. I can hear it whirring when I’m standing outside of the room the clock is in (with the door closed). We have to remove it from my child’s room every night in order that any sleep can be had.The clock face is great and super useful for teaching telling the time. But, because of the two issues noted above, we have now taken the batteries out so that it can be even partially useful. But, I could have achieved this same end — far more cheaply — by drawing a clock. Save yourself some time (pun intended) and money and do that instead.

Looked promising on arrival, and appeared to work fine for the first few days, but then it just started losing time dramatically to the point of being useless. I changed the battery (though fine when checked with a multimeter). The mechanism was never very quiet, certainly not silent, which makes me wonder if it was chewing up the gears inside.

My daughter loves this clock, and I bought it for her - hence the 4 stars.It is a bright and cheerful addition to her bedroom.Personally I was a little disappointed as it consists of what seems to be a painted clock face on an MDF circle with the mechanism on the back. A previous review mentioned difficulties with the flimsy battery compartment, and it does look as though it will be tricky to change batteries without damaging the battery compartment.This clock does not tick! Instead, it makes the weirdest sound of an electronic toy that has been left on and is now on its very, very last legs. It took me two evenings of searching for this elusive sound before I worked out the sound actually comes from the clock! (My daughter is slightly hearing impaired so does not notice the sound - however it drives me mad!!)

This clock is the bees knees! They have literally thought of everything to try and make it as easy as possible to read the time. I love that they have but each half in two different colours with one half labelled ‘past’ and the other ‘to’ as well as having the click split into 5 minute interval labels as well as the standard ones. Even the fact that the hands have been labelled has made it much easier for my daughter to read the time.

We bought this clock to help our 5-year old learn to tell time, and for that it worked perfectly. Five stars in that respect. However, as many reviews note, it is not a silent clock and the description is somewhat misleading. It does not tick, but there is a constant mechanical hum that's clearly audible in the same room. Whether that bothers you is subjective. My child claims not to hear it, but I find it irritating when I notice it.