Let me begin by saying that I love my Hermele mantle clock. Mine is the Hermle Clearbrook 22877070340 Clock, the mantle clock with Winchester chimes and mechanical movement (three winding holes). I give this clock five stars, but I didn’t love my clock it when it arrived. I’ll get to that, as I believe this needs comment.The inlaid mahogany case is beautiful. The mechanical works inside are exquisite; this is a beautifully built clock mechanism. I have many mantle pendulum clocks; this is a mechanical escapement clock. This mechanism arrived well adjusted and is —and remains— accurate, perhaps drifting one minute in two weeks, incredibly precise for a completely mechanical spring-driven clock.My clock arrived two days after ordering and came carefully packaged. After removing the packaging, I wound the clock and turned its hands. It struck the 15-minute point, and the chimes sounded muddy. Then 30-, 45-, and hour strikes, similarly dissonantly muddy. I was so disappointed, and I frowned. I felt something was mechanically wrong or the chime mechanism needed adjustment. The answer was written cryptically (for me) in the instructions, which I read but didn’t absorb. The fix is a five-minute one, but it took me, convinced you could fix anything with a pipe wrench, three days to finally get the message, leaving me so frustrated I wanted to send the clock back. And then enlightenment came, and I finally understood what the cryptic (to me) instructions said. I won’t tell you what I tried before I understood the secret; instead, let me explain how easy the problem is to correct with a five-minute adjustment.My clock’s chimes sounded muddy because as my clock came out of the box, its chime hammers rested directly on the chime rods with no clearance. To get the beautiful clear chimes that you should experience with this clock, each chime hammer must, in its resting position, remain completely clear of touching the chime tone rods.At rest, these hammers must be adjusted so they leave a 1/8-inch air gap, with no contact whatsoever between the hammer and chime rod. Then, when the chime strikes, each hammer will momentarily tap the chime rod creating the tone, and the hammer can then quickly return out of contact to its 1/8-inch rest space, where it will not prevent the chime rod from resonating with its clear tone. Easy.I have big bozo fingers, so I used a needle-nosed plier to gently bend each of the brass hammer rods until the rest position left that 1/8-inch open space over its chime rod. I began at the furthest (clock-face) hammer, bent the brass hammer rod till I had the required hammer clearance, then moved to the next nearer rod and repeated adjustment until every hammer was out of contact with its chime, free to strike squarely at its rod. That was it.The clock has a beautifully toned chime. It is clear-sounding now, and we love this attractive clock. Yes, we give it five stars; it sits on a place of honor on our mantel.