For anyone who doesn’t know, a clock movement is the mechanism that causes the hands of an analog clock to move around the clock face. The “with pendulum” part means that it also swings a weight back and forth to act as a fancy second hand:
Now, there exist clock movements that are “smart” and are network enabled to adjust the time automatically. I’m also okay with an atomic movement. The idea is to adjust the clock twice a year for DST. However, I am having a difficult time (no pun intended) finding a smart/atomic movement that also supports a decorative pendulum.
I was hoping to enlist y’all’s help to see if one exists and where I might find it.
Edit: add comments about atomic clock movements.
Aside from not needing to adjust the time, is there any particular reason it needs to be WiFi enabled?
Because that kind of feels like an overly complicated solution to a problem that was solved decades ago with “atomic” clock movements.
Which aren’t actually atomic in any way on their own, but contain an antenna to pick up the signal from an NIST atomic clock to set the time (and I believe other countries and regions have their own equivalent if you’re not in the US)
As far as finding a pendulum movement, I don’t really know what is out there, but it may be another avenue for you to look into.
I d love a wifi option, because I don’t have good reception for an “atomic” clock. while its amazing under-appreciated technology to broadcast so widely with useful coverage, some of us live in the shadows
I don’t know what actual products are out there, but there are other time signals that could potentially be used, for example GPS.
Off the top of my head I don’t think I’ve seen a gps-synced clock, let alone one with a pendulum, but I’ve also never really looked for one either. It certainly feels like a product that probably exists somewhere to me, I’m sure there’s someone out there who would appreciate a clock that can automatically detect the timezone, whether the region your in observes daylight savings time, etc.
TIL that Usa has one, too :)