[Old Expat Beast]

Originally Posted by Ichiran

This thread reminds of a very happy period during my secondary school years and also my liking for a clock tower, which is 31-metre tall and was completed way back in 1925. The four clocks on the tower were donated by Seiko. Said clock was destroyed and removed during World War II, and was restored in the early 1970s, with replacements donated by Seiko. The clock tower went through a series of restoration and expansion in the 1990s and in 1999, the clock tower was gazetted as a national monument.



Chia Hoy, the first MD of Thong Sia, in their 80th Anniversary commemorative book (1991) wrote that "the clock tower came about nearly 50 years ago because the school wanted more reliable time keeping that require little maintenance. It was the first master-slave clock system in Singapore that could synchronise the time in the whole school, and was so sophisticated that the bells could provide different signal times for the different science and arts classes."

How very Seiko.

Very interesting. The Kowloon Railway clock tower similarly was the first electric clock tower in HK and had one unit powering four clock faces when installed in the early 1920s.