Heathkit Clock: My Final Words

It is beautiful. The printed circuit board may be the highest quality I’ve ever seen. It doesn’t keep time any more accurately than any other 60Hz clock.

You would think that they could have incorporated a WWVB receiver as in previous editions. Better yet, a GPS-based timebase. No, it uses the 60Hz line as a timebase.

There are aspects of the assembly that are clunk/finicky too. The predriled holes in the bottom of the wooden sides (used to attached the bottom plate) really need to have a tap run through them. The battery hold-down strap is mickey-mouse. The dots between digits are a kludge.