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Have always rather liked the look of broadcast studio clocks, nicely edge-lit for the subdued surroundings.

So, one of my best Christmas pressies was one of these, from Amazon*...
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Easily opened up, and a run of warm white 12v led strip placed around the periphery, under the front bezel.
Run off 9v d.c., it lights up when the workshop lights do...
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* https://www.amazon.co.uk/Parateck-Alumi ... inter+Time

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Well done Chris, looks great.

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That’s fantastic Chris!
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Here's mine...……………..not radio controlled. :-D
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I like that Chris... I have a particular love of clocks and have a small collection here...

Can't live without the sound of a ticking pendulum clock :) Oddly, i don't consciously hear them but I do 'hear' as soon as one of them stops! I know instantly...
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Bit like that knock or rattle Jim You know where it's coming from, it's not a problem.....Then it stops......Bugger, it's fell off, now I have to repair it!
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I am not sure you would like the clock of the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, Jim. It kept accurate time, but had an un-even tick tock. Sometimes there would be a regular "tick tock", then you might get a "tick", followed by a pause, and then the "tock". Worst of all it might miss a bit out, so you get "tick", pause, "tick", "tick". It did a good job of unsettling people.
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Clockwork arrythmia... 8-[
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It was DESIGNED to do that! It was built to unsettle people; it succeeded!

Somebody has built a clock that does the same, and (for the clock face) they have used the design from a RED church clock;

https://www.instructables.com/id/Lord-Vetinari-Clock/
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Hell Razor5543 wrote: 05 Jan 2019, 21:51 It was DESIGNED to do that! It was built to unsettle people; it succeeded!

Somebody has built a clock that does the same, and (for the clock face) they have used the design from a RED church clock;
https://www.instructables.com/id/Lord-Vetinari-Clock/


Excellent random link James, have put it on the Red Church Clocks list on POTD :-D

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I used to have a workshop full of televisions - but no clock.

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