Review: WT-3143A La Crosse, Easy and Awesome!

Overall Rating3.673.673.673.673.67

Easy and Awesome!

VERY easy to set up. Pop in a AA battery, push the button on the back for your time zone in the US (Or you can set manually, but then why? Unless you are out of the US time zones.) Find a spot on the wall for it, hammer in a nail, leaving it stick out a little to hold the clock, put the clock up (the hardest part, as it’s just a hole flush with the back, BUT! If you put it close to a door, you can see the hole and the nail) and WALLA! in a few minutes, the clock sets itself! What could be more easy? My cat even found it amusing to watch the clock hands move until the reached the exact time! ;)
Clock is made of finely textured plastic on outside, but looks a lot nicer than in the picture. Great to match black, silver &/or designer computers, Black leather desk chairs, etc. in an office or computer room. Directions say to set it up late at night preferrably, and that if used in interior rooms of office buildings it may not be able to pick up the signal to set, and thus you’d do it manually.

Clock is larger than it looks as well, which is easier on the eyes than other clocks. The price is certainly right as well. I bought an old black school-type clock for my kids when they were young, very similar to this one, and since my son took it with him when he moved out I wanted a replacement! (My mom bought the old one when my youngest was a baby, when my older child was learning to tell time. It’s been through being dropped when moving, a few earthquakes and just keeps on ticking! I have the feeling this one will do the same as it’s well made compared to many of the less expensive clocks out there - espcially the projection type, which I thought might be a great idea until I saw the reviews on how many different projection clocks simply don’t work, are cheaply made, and a friend’s daughter got one for her birthday, which didn’t work either.)

Great for kids learning to tell time too, so this could go just about anywhere in a modern decor room. AWESOME! I’m very happy with it so far!

Update (7/28/2010): This item is currently on sale here for the lowest price I’ve seen. I also found some auctions for this item here.

The featured review for this product, La Crosse Technology WT-3143A Atomic Wall Clock Kitchen Nov 15, 2005, was written by Altmed.

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Reviews (3)

CJ Carterson

December 24th, 2009 at 6:24 am    


Overall Rating11111

Such high hopes
When I received this clock, I popped in the batteries, and it soon began to put the time … at least until the minute hand hit the fifty-minute mark, where he refused to budge. On the advice of technical support, I exchanged the clock, and its replacement kept perfect time … As you do not watch the second hand. The hour and minute hands were dead-on, but occasionally evolved more rapidly seven seconds per hour. No amount of resetting (or tech support) would solve the problem, so I threw in the towel and returned for a refund. Pity. This is exactly the clock I was looking … except for the non-working.


Fly Guy

December 29th, 2009 at 1:47 pm    


Overall Rating55555

Great clock
The other reviewers accurately captured the clock’s great features. I will add that its radio reception is great too. I put the battery in about 6:00 pm in California yesterday, May 31, expecting it to get the correct time overnight. I noticed the second hand move a bit and stop, and thought “d*** it’s broken already.” Not so! While reading the instructions to see what happened, with the clock resting on the floor, it started advancing to the exact correct time, having received the radio signal in a minute since start. The clock is now in my garage and I don’t have to wonder if I have the correct time or not.


Altmed

February 3rd, 2010 at 2:17 pm    


Overall Rating55555

Easy and Awesome!
Rated 5 stars.


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