Giving a clock as a gift in Chinese culture is like saying “It’s time for you to die” or “Your time’s up”.
Don’t do that. If it’s a nice clock sell it for 1nt or something.
So you are saying it is not a good thing to give a clock as a gift?
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Just imagine what it is gonna be like when they rock up at the wedding with the clock…
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Says who? Sadiq Khan?
“Great, you got us that clock we asked for. Much appreciated.”
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certainly no clock. even if they arent superstitious, their other guests might be. that could start a lot of snowball effect gossip.
when I dont know, it’s always 1600nt in a red envelope. they care about the numbers even more than the amount. or, you could stick 2x $2,000 bills, 2x $200 bills, 2x $20 coins and 4x $1 coins inside the clock and have a big grin as they open it. either way…
ps. dont do that. just in case you take it as serious advice. 1600 in red envelope is serious advice.
Let’s be honest, most people here have a list of people to give clocks to.
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Apparently nobody here read the OP’s post that the couple asked him for a clock as a wedding gift.
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Have fun with the guests. both the gifter and the receiver 
my worry is gossip. and the nearly assured scenario of everytime the couple has any sort of issues in the future, it will be blamed on clocks and similar silliness down the line. it’s just easier to avoid future problems in my opinion. be proactive, foresight trumps hindsight .
bring the clock, just dont bring it to a ceremony or let locals know it was a gift. one of those situations a lie might be justified. or rewording. “my friends gave me a red envelope, so we ~the couple~ bought a beautiful clock and these friends helped us bring.it over”. retarded wastes of time like these actually make Taiwan a much more comfortable place to live 
even with lies, there will no doubt be one person from some random cult that can find an issue with anything.
my 2 cents anyway. maybe his groups are more intelligent and less judgmental than normal. that would be cool, but I doubt the entire social circle is.
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I’m sure the gift will be wrapped.
Remove the battery, set the hands at 4.44pm and present it with a flourish in front of the assembled guests.
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means 送終 in Chinese, means you are doing a funeral to them, so it can pretty much be interpreted as a threat.
Everyone here knows this. He was being sarcastic because people keep repeating the same comment telling the OP not to gift a clock even after he explicitly said the couple asked for one.
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You shouldn’t give a clock as a wedding present. I recently found out it is bad luck or something. Can’t remember where I read that though.
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Yeah, this. Between already asking for a clock (isn’t anyone else going to point out how these are bad luck?) and having a banquet in a guesthouse (what kind of guesthouse has banquet facilities?!), this is well outside the norm and whatever we’re used to from other weddings isn’t going to apply.
Note as well if this is your cousin’s son, I’d say they’re a cousin (once removed?), not a nephew. Relevant because a nephew would possibly merit more money than a cousin.
For what it’s worth, there often isn’t a formal wedding ceremony here in Taiwan, or at least not one that most people attend. I’ve been to a couple of dozen wedding banquets here, but I can only recall one formal wedding ceremony (and that was an odd, and quick, “mass marriage” with six or seven couples at the same time).
For comparison: my brother-in-law is getting married in a few weeks and my wife tells me we should give NTD$12,000 in the hongbao. I don’t remember what we’ve given at cousins’ weddings in the past, but it certainly wasn’t that much! Apparently I get to attend the traditional … engagement? wedding? … ceremony, earlier in the day, as well. A couple of decades ago that would have piqued my interest. It no longer does.
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She sits in her room and the groom tries three (?) times to enter the room. He has to answer some questions from the bridesmaids. Then they go down to the car and the parents throw fireworks at them. It’s cultural. It’s derivative. It’s worth seeing. Once.
Then give them that bloody juicy big clock.
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Even if we’re doing this in the banquet hall as well? I’ve read about that sort of thing happening at the home, yeah, but apparently we’re meeting at the wedding banquet place in the morning (with a lunchtime banquet).
Wait, I thought that was the groom’s job?! Oh, nevermind, misread.
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Have you asked how much you need to pay to get out of it? 
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one can explicitly ask for a prostitute too. some things might be better done in private
Wedding gifts are usually wrapped.
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