Clockspeddler Blog

Digital clocks and watches are great and seem to be cheaper and thus easier to replace than other kinds of clocks, but sometimes it’s good to go with the old standard.  Analog clocks are the clocks with faces, that have the familiar “tick-tock” and three hands to tell you the time.  Unlike digital clocks, which are electronic, an analog clock has gears and is almost entirely mechanical.

I’ve got an old grandfather clock I inherited from when I was a kid.  Like all grandfather clocks mine is an analog clock, with the long pendulum swinging on the bottom to keep the gears moving.  There are also weights involved and winding.  Some analog clocks are powered by batteries, but this doesn’t make a clock or a watch digital.  If there’s still hands on a clock face being moved around by gears, it’s an analog clock.  In the case of clocks that run on batteries, there’s usually a quartz crystal keeping him instead of a pendulum.

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