Present Time Karlsson Do It Yourself Cubic Wall Clock, Multicolour

I had seen this clock in a glossy magazine photo shoot and spent three days searching through Google images to find it. I was so surprised to find it was so reasonably priced and not some designer £300 clock. We have had it up in our kitchen for 3 years and everyone comments on it when they walk in. I have just bought this one for my office and set it up randomly in the Chaos pattern to make it different to the kitchen and it is great. It adds a real splash of colour and depth to the room as each block is around 2" deep. It is relatively easy to install depending on the layout you choose, and looks great. Love it, especially for the price, and eith a little redecoration you can change the look in years to come.

A clock you can design yourself! Had great fun laying the pieces out on the table and moving them around to decide on the final design. Looks great on the wall. Used the supplied sticky pads to put all but the clock mechanism up and no problems at all.

Love this clock. Looks great in my kitchen. Will have to paint the wall when we move though as the sticky pads pull off the paint so make sure you get the positions right first time as well!

... but don’t underestimate the difficulty of mounting it properly!Essentially you have to balance two different things: being after all just a clock, it must show the time and you must be able to tell it. But you also want to give a nice touch to – say - your living room.Basically: if you go for a regular shape – say a circle, or a square – you will soon notice it’s not so easy to distribute the cubes evenly; and that it’s almost impossible if you use nails instead of the adhesive pads provided (which do their job perfectly: I used a nail – as per instructions - only for the middle cube). In short: you have to work very precisely or your eye will spot even the tiniest difference.If you prefer a chaos-like pattern, then in practice you won’t be able to tell the time.What did I do? I used a leveller and a tape to draw a cross (12, 3, 6 and 9), then moved the hands of the clock to 1, 2, 4, 5 etc., and there – in a scattered, random fashion – I put the other cubes. It looks nice, it’s definitely eye-catching and it shows – by the way - the exact time.I recommend – how boring it might sound – to experiment with the look of your clock on a table and to plan in advance before putting it on the wall. I did, and still had to change the design during mounting!Conclusion: nice and eye-catching, but only four stars because Karlsson could actually provide some more templates to make the mounting a bit easier (one is included, but it’s too small and practically useless).

Clock cubes are a lovely bright colour but do not remain stuck to the wall very well. Moreover, the clock hands are cheap and bend/break easily (usually when the clock hand block falls to the floor from the not so sticky adhesive pads!). Have removed from our wall for now - hoping to fix it up and mount in a better way to the way it was designed. Shame as it looks gorgeous in the photo

My daughter was given one for her 18th birthday and loved it, She had so much fun deciding on where to put the cubes. When we had visitors from Germany, the 13 year old fell for it too, so it was the perfect present to send her for her Confirmation present. It was a great success. :)

Quite a quirky product. Unfortunately, we used the supplied sticky pads to stick up the cubes but 1. they only supplied 11 sticky pads for 13 cubes and 2. the one holding the middle part of the clock with the hands wasn't strong enough (with that one being heavier, holding the battery, hands etc), fell off the wall, ripping part of the wallpaper from the wall and when it fell on the floor, it's damaged the hands.So, basically, we can't use the clock anymore!! If you're planning on buying this product, use nails instead!

It's a clock, its not cheap, you can make any design you like with it.....it's very retro and I love it! It would be loved even more if they shaved a tenner off the price!