best small analog alarm clock?
 

I used to have a great small german travel alarm clock (not a braun -- some other brand some other brand that I forgot the name of). It was very old. It actually said made in West Germany.

It was great because it was a very simple and dependable and well designed ANALOG alarm clock. I could set the alarm time in 3 seconds with a twist of of small knob on back. It had a gradual beeping alarm -- started soft and got louder.

Nothing has been as good since then. I've tried the brauns, and various digitals, but nothing works as well. Anyone have any suggestions for a replacement?

Your cell phone:p

While I wish I could help you, I understand your urge! I used to travel with a wind-up, Baby Ben clock. I liked the solid, mechanical-sounding tick-tock. It was a kindler and gentler thing to wake up to than my cell phone's current selection of Reveille! :p

But I finally stopped carrying it when one-too-many security line personnel would grill me because they'd never actually seen an analog or wind-up clock -- I pitied their youth when one of them said "Why don't you carry a real clock?!?"

[Insert your own chosen what-is-the-world-coming to expostulation]

This is just sad. Kind of like the clerks at retail establishments who can't actually count back change. When travelling, I only carry analog timepieces - watch, travel alarm - as they are so much easier to reset when crossing time zones. I don't have to remember what combination of tiny buttons will allow me to change anything.

To the OP: I have been carrying a cheap Casio travel alarm I got from CampMor for several years. Uses one AA battery which lasts for years and runs silently, unlike much of the competition. I can set it right by my head and not hear it until it goes off.

JR

I've got one of these:

http://www.montblanc.com/products/tr...iece.35774.php

Small, does the job, and perhaps just a little bit more stylish than a bog-standard plastic thingy.

This Seiko looks nice. It has a large setting wheel on the front, no need to look for a tiny knob on the back.

SeikoClock - QXE011JLH

On a related note: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=698410

i agree and some discussion over here if anyone is interested.....

When I'm on business, usually in Asia, have multiple cellphones for different numbers.

My sony w810i wakes me up with bohemian rhapsody or Beach Boy's Fun Fun Fun, and then my samsung clamshell (loud as heck) follows 10 minutes later with CU24 jingle :D

Cartier makes some nice travel clocks. Have you looked at Oregon Scientific? I see them everywhere.

I just use my iPhone and wake up to a tolling bell tower - it's like waking up in a little Austrian village :)

I have used my cel phones in past, tried using my iPod :td: but recently purchased an LL Bean travel clock. I love it. I really didn't think that I could be so attached to a clock but I am!! (I realize that it is not quite what was requested, but I must sing its praises)

Time in large numbers, temperature setting, pleasant alarm, easy to snooze, and can be switched from American to International time and temperature displays. http://www.llbean.com/webapp/wcs/sto...Search&feat=sr (and it comes in purple!)

Prior to that I was using a plain face standard travel clock from IKEA but the ticking drove me crazy so I often tucked it under a pillow only to accidentally turn off the alarm, or not be able to hear it.

The OP's original German clock sounds like my old German travel clock which came with me on many many trips before finally deciding that it needed to stay in some unknown location.

I use a sharper image travel alarm similar to the llbean one listed above. It was quite cheap and many are often is listed on the sharper image outlet store on ebay.com

MisterNice

I wonder what they would think if they saw me winding my manual watch?
They would probably haul me away:(

I am with you mre2b9. If you wanted to use your cell phone you could have figured that out by now. I am also an analog die hard; they are really the only clocks I enjoy looking at (and I figure life is too short not to enjoy something you do that often). Flight 001 has several; they seem to be of the elegant solution model and have very neat travel stuff: http://www.flight001.com/store/trip.htm?sid=512 [And if any kind soul would want to point me in the direction of instructions for how to do that neat thing where you say "here" in your message and it is a hyperline to "here", I would be eternally grateful...]

Eagle Creek makes two analog travel alarm clocks, see

http://www.eaglecreek.com/product/?x=0&y=0&search=clock

I've had the World Clock for at least 5 years. It runs on one of those little silver disc batteries, which I remove when I'm not going to use the clock for a long time. The clock is extremely simple to set and use.