Howard Miller 625-283 Aries Wall Clock by

I bought this clock for my bathroom and maybe the air was too moist. It's a beautiful clock but after a couple of months the minute hand got stuck on the 8 and of course the time was way off. I putzed with it and put it back up and after a few tries it kept good time and that lasted about 7 months. Then a few weeks ago it did it again and I couldn't get the minute hand past the 8. The wierd thing is that if I lay it flat it works fine but if I hang it on the wall it does the same thing. Needless to say it's worthless. I read on another website that there was a similar problem with it as well.

I rcvd my new Howard Miller - Aries 8.5" wall clock today. I shopped online for a couple weeks before deciding on this one. This seems to be part of a series of Howard Miller clocks with Zodiac names; they are all the same size and style, but with different colored cases and dials: Aries (brushed-nickel case); Aquarius (brushed-brass case); Virgo (oil-rubbed bronze case); Pisces (brushed nickel case with spun silver-tone dial). I picked the Aries because I thought the `brushed nickel case with white dial' would look best on my wall. It was a bit difficult to find an 8.5" dia clock, as most wall clocks are larger; but an enormous 12-13" dia wall clock would have looked ridiculous on the wall of my small office room. *I don't find the `ticking' to be much louder than any of the other battery operated clocks I have in my house; of course it would be better to have a non-ticking (silent sweep) clock, but I couldn't find any available in the 8.5" dia size. *I didn't understand the...Read more

We purchased this clock a while back and after several months it started to run slow, we changed the battery and it was fine for about 6 weeks it started to run slow again this has been a recuring problem till today when I threw it out. Junk.