In light of a new bar being set in the obvious must have accessory of 2020.

Let’s find the best/coolest travel alarm out there.

Style, price, functionality, and coolness will all be considered. So it is possible that a $6,000 one could win.*

I will enlist judges to help judge the event and the winner will get a pre production gin making set sent to them. The Gin creation sets are my invention and have everything you need but the vodka. A few members have already received one.

2nd place gets a set of steak knives and third place is you’re fired.**

So are you better then a Hodinkee Owner?

I’ll leave it open over the weekend.



*I hard a hard time typing that with a straight face
** 2nd place and third place are to be awarded by Mitch & Murrey.

:edit:
Clarified timeline and Mitch & Murray’s contribution.

 

Not a table clock...but you can place it there and it has an alarm:

 

Third place is you're fired

In with the obligatory iPhone vote. Yeah, even me

 

Yeah. At last. I now know why I was once given this small travel clock (unused) as a birthday gift.
It was for this very moment.

To be able to display a completely useless but attractive travel accessory.

Complete with built in alarm (for very sensitive ears) and leather travel pouch. Mmmm.
Am hoping this could be considered for its vintage NOS feature, as well as small is beautiful sizing. The Leather pouch is of course a wondrous feature.

The dial is dotty.
Akin to a Damien Hirst design style dial IMHO

The Mark II dial (cough, Tropical), whilst there purely for the benefit of scale, I would gladly include if there were a buyer looking to steal this from me for $6000

 

I proudly submit for consideration the 1993 Vintage Plastic "Barney The Dinosaur" Alarm Clock.

It is light weight for easy traveling. Runs on a single AA battery.
Loud, obnoxious alarm sound. Easy to set the time of day and alarm time.
Can quickly turn-off the alarm in the morning by pressing the top button down.

So socially-embarrassing no one would want to steal it from your hotel room.

New ones are still available at a reasonable price:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/829603...MIhMXAtcbm6gIVBobICh1SMg0rEAQYASABEgI81vD_BwE

Here is a picture of the one we have in our house.

 

Darn it. I see you even have an hour and minute label. But oddly confusing when upside down...hoping that counts against you

 

my iPad allows me to set multiple themes.... a winner for me

 

Oh this is easy. And it's priced at a point that makes the Donkee Clock look like a bargain:

https://monochrome-watches.com/patek-philippe-alarm-travel-time-5520p-review-price/



Around $220,000.

 

Style, price, and coolness: Check.

Functionality? Eh.... Not the most legible thing at 4am but that doesn't matter when you can wake up to the Jump Hour Elgin!!!

Or wandering hour I guess.

Whatever, the millennial in me deserves something for trying.

 

https://thegadgetflow.com/portfolio/screaming-sun-alarm-clock/

 

OK. This I also use.
I just need to be careful re certain countries on import declaration cards. (Especially in Aus)
But its amazingly accurate

 

Bought one of these basically NOS on eBay last week. About the same diamete as the top of a soda can. Alarm actually wakes me up.

I'm happy.

 

While strictly not a travel alarm, it's about the same size and I have a warm spot in my heart for these.



At the beginning of WWII, brass was rationed and these things, as were most alarm clocks, made out of brass plates with brass wheels. Therefore, the war production board said, no more! Make do with what you have.

Well, alarm clocks started wearing out. Some could be repaired (Westclox could) but many could not. Workers could not get alarm clocks and therefore could not come to work on time for their shifts.

Woops! said the War Product Board, and Westclox, Gllbert, Telechron/GE and some few others were authorized to make "War Alarm" clocks. Most were cardboard cases with movements made of stamped steel plates. Westclox had some parts left over and assembled them into clocks. Since no one's name was permitted on the clock, it was left off and they were labeled "War Alarm", except for Westclox, who got cute and named theirs "Waralarm".

Baby Ben versions are somewhat rare, especially luminous, but I have one that is very nice indeed. More pics later of various War Alarm clocks if anyone cares.

 

I’ve used a Braun BNC008BK-RC radio control travel alarm clock for the last 8 years or so.

It was about £40, bought at Heathrow on a trip to the US for work.

Still on its original AAA battery (I guess thanks to the low power usage of the inverted LCD), it sits on my bedside table at home when I’m not travelling.


I think it’s petty cool, and most importantly, it never failed to wake me up!

 

After being woken up by Barney the Dinosaur, the day could only get better.

 

Travelling



At home

 

Saw this up for auction - if I hadn't just had a spree on watches, I would have seriously thought about it.

 

LOT OF (4) VINTAGE TRAVEL CLOCKS
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/87092017


Edit: sold for $225. Maybe I should have gone in with someone to bid on this lot

 

Sorry...no scale. Its about 2.5 inches x 2.5 inches x 1 inch or there abouts.

have fun
kfw