![]() ![]() The turn-keys on the back need to be turned specific ways, so I keep looking at the directional arrows to be sure to do it right. Because it's not battery operated, you need occasionally to adjust the slower/faster lever. Only three possibly negative things, for some people: It's loud, and might wake you with a start. but is made in China! Finally I gave up, and put this out on Facebook: I found some Bulova alarm clocks that looked really hopeful, but in reading more about them found them to be made in China! I found some sort of very expensive Zen alarm clock supposedly made in Colorado, and was about to buy it, but then read at the end of its description that it was designed in the U.S. ![]() The sentence you are now reading is the only place in the world in which should be found both "Made in China" and "quality." And so I searched online, high and low, for a new alarm clock, with a face, not digital, preferably wind-up, NOT made in China. made things, but am really after quality, no matter where I find it. So I began a search for a real alarm clock. For me, my alarm clock fiasco was the last straw. stores and we've been taking them seriously. Nowadays it's China instead of Japan, but the problem is that China makes virtually every item now for sale in U.S. When we saw "Made in Japan" on the item, we knew it was garbage and never took it seriously. ![]() When I was a kid, products made in Japan were a joke. As with everything else in America, it was made in China. But it's already conked out, although it cost about $40. My birth year is 1949 and so I bought it. About a year ago I bought a new reproduction of a 1949 Big Ben alarm clock. ![]()
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