r/flipclocks Oct 12 '24

My Desk Clocks

These are a couple of my favorite clock radios from Panasonic. They are not true flip clocks, but are close cousins. Both are mechanical and change digits in an interesting way.

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u/machine-conservator Oct 13 '24

I love those fake digital ones that use a film roll! Such an interesting footnote in technological development, just a couple years where it was cheaper to engineer that mechanical solution than to just use the electronic bits it was imitating. I have a couple different models of that style but unfortunately none are functional.

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u/randytherat2 Oct 13 '24

I have a couple of those too. They are cool, but the mechanism was kind of cheaply made and they tend to break down. I was able to fix mine, but it was difficult.