Ordered this when out of stock with a five-week wait. The price was so good it was worth the wait. But I did not have wait since Amazon got stock yesterday and it's with me today. That's service! Thank you Amazon. So, to the clock...
It's lovely to look at - better than the pictures on site. It has a reassuring heft to it unlike the ubiquitous quartz and plastic ones. I think time should have weight. You'll need an AA battery to get it going since one is not supplied. It has a nice gentle but audible click as the lower cogs rotate. In normal use, only the lower cogs are seen to rotate since proportionally the other cogs take much longer to move. When you move the hands, the larger cogs do obviously rotate. So, it is not some sort of choreographed symphony of cogs as time goes by. You can't easily tell them time from a distance because of the cogs and min/hour oval band are the same colour making the hands slightly obscure. But, it looks very elegant and is really more ornamental. Ironically, however, it keeps excellent time! Would make a lovely present and at a great price too! My Mother loves it. It reminds her of clocks when she was a child in the 1920s. I note she's keeping excellent time!!