User-friendliness: It’s important for a sunrise alarm clock to have easy-to-use and accessible buttons (so you can easily hit that snooze button on days where light alone won’t get you up).

Type-A port in the back for charging devices (albeit at a slow rate, which is best for overnight charging). When your tough-love moment arrives, the device flashes urgently like hazard lights and emits a sound like a car that won’t start—right next to your bed. While the original inventor did not have a watch brand at the time, his name has since been resurrected by a newly established watch manufacturer.As with all Philips models, the LED in the HF3520 can’t be replaced when it goes out, so you’ll have to replace the entire clock. We favored alarm clocks with a variety of sounds to choose from, and listened to each (like chirping birds or crashing waves) to evaluate the selection and sound quality. I’ve also written several guides here at Wirecutter, including on bedside lamps, floor lamps, bed frames, and patio furniture. Aside from the largest clock (the Philips Wake-Up Light), our picks are small; they should fit on most nightstands and won’t slide or knock over easily.

Two side-plates held digital numerals between them, while an electric motor and cam gear outside controlled movement. The alarm turns itself off when the calendar notification happens and if two alarms go off at the same time, the alarm becomes silent and does not ring out loud even though it has rung out loud even minutes before. Read more about the condition New: A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item in original retail packaging (where packaging is applicable).

Instead of a conventional dial, the jump-hour featured two windows in an enamel dial, through which the hours and minutes are visible on rotating discs. For instance, we discovered one night that there were a few more soothing classical compositions to wake up to than we’d had the day before and that alarm-scheduling options had been expanded. The two other buttons are for setting the alarm, accessing brightness and volume settings, setting the duration of the sleep timer, and choosing alarm tones.