Cuckoo Seems Out of Place on Bentley’s $160K Dashboard Clock

Don’t get us wrong; we love the optional $160,000 Breitling clock nestling mid-dashboard on Bentley’s Bentayga SUV.  (You read that right, $160-grand for a clock; that’s on top of the Bentayga’s $229,100 base price.)  

Our chief complaint with this admittedly exquisite timepiece — other than the fact that it’s a clock priced like an Acura NSX —  lies with the annoying cuckoo bird that abruptly pops out from the clock’s innards once an hour, producing a series of chirps like Mariah Carey choking on tofu jerky.  

As an aside, there reportedly was also an issue with preproduction cuckoos — hand carved from a dollop of yellow jade by Audibon Society-approved chiselers — becoming dislodged from their perches, resulting in minor injuries to passengers.  Indeed, Bentley engineer D’Ammit Persky still wears an eye patch some two months after his calamity involving one of the chirping yellow projectiles.  Bentley has since modified its adhesive.  

We love the clock, but believe Bentley should offer it with a cuckoo-delete option. Besides banishing the bird, It just might drop the clock’s price into Carrera S territory.