Quote Originally Posted by unseenmage View Post
At this point I wonder which is the norm. There are so many which do not conform. Are the exceptions outnumbering their counterpoint?
Going off of memory I'd say that the majority of golems have Cl requirements = to their item CL.

Clockwork constructs seem to all be CL 7 or CL 12 and have matching CL requirements, too.

Robots have CR-based Craft(Mechanical) DCs, so that's an entirely separate paradigm.

I want to say that the rough majority of miscellaneous constructs with printed requirements and item CLs have CL requirement set equal to their item CL, too, but it's much more variable there than it is for the constructs that belong to a family of constructs.

I haven't gone through and tallied out how many of each type fall into which camp, though, I've been busy adding in the constructs from the Archive of Nethys that I discovered thanks to looking some up there as a result of the PFSRD's site migration issues to my master list focusing on gp/HD ratios that gave rise to this whole shebang.