Round Wood Wall Clock – Silent Quartz Artistic Decorative Clock

A round wood clock with no size or color choice is a single fixed object, which puts the whole decision on whether the face suits the wall it is going onto. Sold as a decorative piece, it belongs to the category of clocks bought for how they look first and what time they keep second, and that is a defensible order of priorities for something hanging where a picture might otherwise go.

Wood on a clock face has one property no printed dial shares: the grain runs underneath the markings, so the surface is never uniform and the indices sit on a background that changes across the dial. It is also why wood faces are generally kept out of direct sun, since ultraviolet light lightens exposed timber unevenly and a clock left in one position for years fades in the pattern of whatever shadow falls across it.

The silent quartz movement means it can hang in a bedroom without a tick. Elsewhere it works over a desk, on a landing, or in a hallway where a wall needs one object rather than several.

• Case material: Wood
• Movement: Silent quartz
• Shape: Round