WOODEN.CITY Steampunk 3D Puzzle Clock – DIY Mechanical Wall Clock Kit for Adults – Unique Engineering Gift and Vintage Décor - 3D Wooden Puzzles 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.

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.

I’ve built many of these models and this one is absolutely the worst that I’ve come across. I’ve spent nearly 11 1/2 hours on this project and due to the inadequate details and directions, at the end, nothing comes together as it should. The pcs are more difficult to punch out as compared to ROKU. The quality is less. The instructions are worse. I’ve basically wasted over 11 hrs of my time on a clock that simply will never operate as described. I highly recommend recommend that you look at the ROKU models prior to buying this one!

This thing was HARD! I have built several booknooks of all sizes and they were nothing compared to this. Be prepared to spend a lot of time on this one. It is very pretty once completed though!!

A GREAT build! Was fun and relaxing. If I have just ONE tip, it would be to remove the small pieces that cover bearing axles. My escape wheel kept stopping, or losing power, at the same spot. So I knew it was the problem gear. I removed both front and back caps on the ends of the bearings for that gear, and it now runs without problem. The caps were applying force on the bearings, causing friction. I've now removed all caps from all bearing axles.

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

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.

Love it, it was a gift. Said it met their expectations. It is very nice looking after it is completed. It would look great on a colored wall.

Kit di montaggio molto bello, difficile ma richiede attenzione e precisione, finito e molto bello e funziona perfettamente

Si te gusta el montaje y los rompecabezas, es genial.

So! These Christmas holidays I’ve assembled both- the Ugears Aero and Wooden City wall clock. And have luxury to compare. In two words: both wall clock are very hi quality product requiring a ton of attention and time to assemble. The user manual of uterus is a bit more detailed, but I can not call the wooden city unclear. I had literally “0” confusion in the assembly process. Everything is very well presented. The material quality and cutouts of ugears I liked better. Some fine details of the wooden city I really had troubles to extract (my poor nails… sometimes the provided tool is just not enough) But the design of the wooden city clock I liked better much better! This dark brown two-colored visual matches my room much better. The ugears though is light and fits well to the kids room. Wooden city is exposing more of the inner working of the mechanism itself. The ugears has this nice “raising balloon” mechanic (but this one requires a LOT of fine tuning before it works) Bottom line- I am very happy with both. Can totally recommend: Wooden city for office or living room Ugears- for bedroom or kids room. UPD: biggest concern is the “time to fall”. At the length of approx 180-190 cm it takes only about 8 hours for the weight to reach the bottom. So as a time measuring device these clock are incompetent. Could be really cool to have them last at least 2-3 days. But afraid hardly possible for a wooden mechanism (See a screenshot- about the best accuracy I managed to achieve- very fluctuating)

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Compared to others this clock fails miserably. First to remove the pieces from the board is more difficult then others , every piece , mostly the smaller ones have you on edge fir the fear of breaking them , the instructions not in a book like others but on a massive paper, the dowels are almost impossible to slide through the holes i found myself sanding then waxing and still too tight. I ended up breaking 2 of them Then the instructions for stringing makes no sense again the instructions are blurry. I had to go online to a video to understand what the order was. The piece of wax included was tiny at best. Sheet a as an example will be numbered 1 to 59 but part 49 is on sheet c. The small connector pieces are incredible hard to remove to the point an exact o knife is needed to cut them out. Just very unhappy with this clock ive made many before , 1st and last from this company. This is a high priced clock compared to others but very disappointing .