Looks funny and taugr any more than any other mechanical egg timers - probably cheap China goods with lousy equipment. Ausgeleiertes, lazy work, which only works on brutal pulling out at all, often simply stops before the end time, completely inaccurate and is just so quiet ringing that you can hear it up to 2-3m ... shortly (to next minute!): Colorful scrap - and discourage real impudence, for which one should sue Alessi!