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19 of 19 found the following review helpful:
 It's the best! Aug 06, 2007
By KAT
I love my Kit Kat Clock. When I couldn't get the tail and eyes to swing, I checked the website. They recommended that you open the back and loosen the tiny (and I mean tiny) screw just to the left of the pendulum workings. loosen it a half a turn and VOILA! the tail and eyes now move easily.
36 of 42 found the following review helpful:
 A Delightful Relic of Scandalously Poor Design. Jan 10, 2008
By B. W. Roberts
"BWR"
The familiar, smiling feline resembling Felix the cat is a pop-culture classic. Created by the California Clock Company (now in Portland, Oregon) in 1932, the Kit Cat Clock sports a unique art-deco style, delightful smile, and big kitty eyes, whose cuteness continues to make sales. The company claims to sell an average of one kitty every three minutes. That works out to about 175,000 kitties per year. That would make for about 13 million kitties total, if the statistic holds for the entire 3/4-century lifetime of the product.
If this is true, it is an utterly astonishing result, because the quality of this clock is abysmal.
To be fair, the clock does keep good time. But wall clocks that keep good time are available on Amazon for $3.99 -- you want the Kit Cat clock because it's so darn charming! Unfortunately, the charming tail and eye mechanism that this clock boasts just doesn't work. The failure isn't due to any particular oversight on the part of the California Clock Co.; it's just a scandalously poor design.
If you manage to get the back cover off the Kit Cat without breaking it (and you'll need to anyway to install two C batteries), watch out for the messy hot-glue job holding the insides together. The kitty's guts consist of a clock casing, a battery casing, and the eye-tail mechanism. The eyes and tail connect (rather precariously) to a thin plastic rod with a magnet on one end. Astoundingly, this magnet is the only design feature that keeps the eyes and tail moving. There is another magnet in the body of the clock, so that if you give the tail a little push, the repulsive force between the magnets makes the mechanism move back and forth for longer than it would otherwise.
However, the tail does not swing once per second, because it is not connected to the clock. As the above description suggests, the eye-tail mechanism is not even connected to the batteries. This means that doesn't swing continuously, but comes to a stop after a little while. Indeed, this design could never have a continuously swinging tail, unless perpetual motion were possible!
As far as anyone knows, perpetual motion is impossible. One can only hope that the perpetual sales of the Kit Cat Clock is impossible too, unless the California Clock Co either improves their design, or lowers the price of the Kit Cat to the earthly realm of the other low-quality clocks on Amazon.
14 of 15 found the following review helpful:
Cat Clock Sep 21, 2006
By J. E. Kitchen
"Book Lover"
It is cute but MUCH smaller than I was expecting. I feel the dimensions should be posted on the site so people know what to expect. I would send it back but I really want this for my daughter for Christmas. She has always wanted one. But this little kitty ending up costing me almost $50. I expected more.
10 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 extremely disappointed Apr 21, 2009
By Ivan Cat
I have had four of these clocks. None of them work properly. The classic versions had swinging tails powered by an electric motor and plugged into a wall socket for power. These new clocks are of cheap construction, battery powered and some kind of pulsing magnet is supposed to move the tail, but it is woefully inadequate. What I have now is three clocks that keep time, (one died completely) but none of the eyes or tails move. I do not recommend this product at all.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Junk Aug 12, 2010
By El Comandante
The first clock I order arrived damaged. It's replacement worked as advertised for a total of three weeks. Although the clock keeps time, the tail and eyes won't swing. I have changed the batteries and referred to the website, performing all of the maintenance as directed without success. This was a waste of money.
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