The weather begins to warm up, the birds reappear, bulbs poke out from the ground – and its time for your clocks to be set ahead one hour. Daylight Saving Time occurs on Sunday, March 11, 2012 at 2:00am.   If your clock has an Electric Time Company automatic clock controller the time will be automatically reset for you. Grab a lawn chair and a warm blanket, have an extra cup of coffee, and await that 2:00am reset show. Or, do what the rest of us do – check it when we get up in the morning! Happy Spring!

Tower Clock Movement MetLife Meadowland Stadium with animated gears 

Happy birthday dear tower clock, happy birthday to you! Where were you in 1932? Milk was fourteen cents a quart, the average yearly salary was $1,368.00, Franklin D. Roosevelt was President, a gallon of gas cost ten cents and Harvard University installed an Electric Time Company tower clock on Byerly Hall.

What is the life expectancy of our tower clocks? Lets use the exterior clock at Harvard’s Byerly Hall as an example. Their flush mounted Electric Time Company exterior clock was installed in 1932. After 76 years of continuous operation we supplied a replacement clock movement (the same movement they originally were using) and a new pair of hands (although the old hands would have worked just fine). The new equipment has been in place for 4 years without a hitch. Electric Time Company supports their legacy equipment and still produces replacement clock equipment for decades old clocks. Now that is commitment to our customers!

Electric Time Company was fortunate to work with a wonderful company in Thailand this past year. We created a Large Two Dial Howard Replica Post Clock for the City of Chachoengsao in Thailand.

The Chachoengsao street clock glows with its 23kt gold leaf highlighting and provides a beautiful accent to this gorgeous plaza. The city is located in the Central Region of Thailand. Can’t you feel the warm breezes…?

Once again Electric Time Company has been called upon to provide a complete Tower Clock restoration. Brown University in Providence Rhode Island asked us to restore their iconic Aldrich Field tower clocks for their new Aquatics and Fitness Center. 

 The four 6’ diameter tower clocks had seen better days. Aided by historic photographs, the cast dials were stripped and repainted using their original color scheme. The broken glass panels were recreated and reinstalled. Reproduction hands were manufactured to replace the missing and broken hands. Updated lighting was added to provide a nice even glow in the evening. The four clocks were fitted with Electric Time Company C1-MI tower clock movements and equipped with our 99B-MI automatic clock controller for years of maintenance free use. 

Restored Tower Clock in our Factory

Installed 

Original Tower Clock in Storage and in pieces 

Electric Time Company is proud to announce the restoration of the iconic 200 Fifth Avenue Street Clock. The historic gold painted clock has been seen on everything from the opening of the David Letterman Show to decades old photographs of the nearby Flatiron Building.  Sponsored by Tiffany & Co, the restoration process was done with the approval of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The process of restoring the clock to its former beauty took over 8 months to accomplish. This sculptural masterpiece is ready to face its next century providing the time to passersby in Madison Square.

Shopping anyone? 

The recently renovated Tourneau watch store in “the” Palm Beach Florida shopping district has been newly outfitted with our latest style of Tourneau tower clock. These stainless steel beauties bring time-keeping to a whole new height! The clock cases feature brushed and polished stainless steel with a pieced overlay and oversized button-head screws. Each lighted dial has Tourneau’s stylized dial markings. 

Beautiful craftsmanship and clock design from Electric Time Company. 

Bill Nye, a 1977 graduate of Cornell University in Ithaca NY, and world famous scientist and teacher, has presented his alma mater with an Electric Time Company clock featuring a Solar Noon Indicator. The 10’ diameter clock has been over 10 years in the making – a collaborative effort with Electric Time Company, Bill Nye and the students of Cornell University.

Using Bill’s initial design drawings, Electric Time Company created a clock to accommodate solar noon indicator equipment. A large polished tube is connected from the back of the clock dial to the roof of the building. On the end of the tube at the roof are shutters that open to accept light from the sun when it is at its highest point of the day – solar noon. The sun on the face of the clock dial illuminates brightly at solar noon.

Bill Nye’s interest in solar noon and timekeeping stems from his father’s and mother’s love of science and sundials. To see more on this topic and pictures of the clock installation see; Telling Time.

Bill Nye at Electric Time Company Factory in Medfield, Massachusetts

Tower Clock Installation

Tower Clock at Solar Noon

Tower Dedication Ceremony

Hurricane Irene has hit Medfield! If you tried to call or email us and weren’t able to reach anyone – we apologize!  Currently we are running on a generator have limited phone service  and no email or fax.

Hurricane Irene wreaked havoc here in Medfield MA and on the entire east coast of the USA. If you tried to call or email us and weren’t able to reach anyone – we apologize! We have our power, telephone and internet back now and its time for business! 

How cute is this custom  exterior clock?

We all fell in love with this precocious frog – catching a fly on a nearby leaf. The intricate pieces were all cut in-house on our water jet machine.  The lucky recipient of this clock is the Golisano Children’s Museum of Naples Florida. Don’t you just love the colors that make up this fun clock? Ten colors were painstakingly matched to the customers specifications for this one-of-a-kind clock. The clock just shipped – we are looking forward to seeing it in the museum. What a fun addition!

One question that is frequently asked – How can our clock be seen at night if we install a non-illuminated clock? These photographs are an excellent example of illuminating an Electric Time Company silhouette style tower clock. The clock tower is washed with light from nearby parking lot fixtures. We have also seen great examples of “wall washing” lights focused from below the clocks.

Day Photograph

Night Photograph

Electric Time Company is so excited for the upcoming release of the Zookeeper movie, starring Kevin James. On July 8, 2011 in the US and world-wide this fall, the Zookeeper will be released and we can’t wait to see it! The movie features our Small Two Dial Howard Replica Post Clock as an important part of the set. We just saw the trailer and WOW – its going to be a blockbuster. Grab some popcorn and meet us at the movies!.

Electric Time Company of Medfield MA USA completed the restoration and installation of the Steinway Street Clock located in the Borough of Queens New York City. The restoration was sponsored  by the  Central Astoria LDC.

The  clock  was originally made  by the Howard Clock Company of  Boston, MA was restored to it’s original design - with a watch bezel and winder.  This clock design is also available new.

Before                                                                                After

The clock tower pictured is Oujda City Hall, located in eastern Morocco in the city of Oujda. With a population of just over one million, Oujda is known for its strategic location – placing an emphasis on trading. Electric Time Company supplied (4) tower clock hand and movement (#4MI Design)  assemblies with a custom carillion. The outer dimension of these monumental clocks is 156” (4 meters). The clocks can be seen at a great distance!

Congratulations to The Architectural Team, architects for the Bourne Mill Apartments in Tiverton Rhode Island. The Bourne Mill Apartments were recently announced as the 2010 winner of the J. Timothy Anderson Award for Excellence in Historic Rehabilitation for the Best Historic Rehabilitation Utilizing Low-Income Housing Tax Credits. The awards were presented by the National Housing and Rehabilitation Association in conjunction with the National Trust Community Investment Corporation. One of eight historic buildings honored with the awards, the revitilized mill features four 96” diameter, back-lighted Electric Time Company tower clocks as its crown jewel. The apartments were completed in November 2009 and were built to LEED Silver specifications. Special thanks to Nat Rea of Nat Rea Photography www.natrea.com for sharing his photographs of this architectural award winner.

Electric Time Company is making the papers in South Korea! Its all good news as our Large Four Dial Howard Replica Post Clock is the centerpiece of a beautiful new mall in South Korea. The Shinsegae-Chelsea Paju Premium Outlet celebrated its grand opening with a ceremony featuring the Governor of Kyonggi Province, National Congressmen, the CEO of Chelsea and the Chairperson of Shinsegae Group.

An Electric Time Company Street Clock is prominently  featured on the City of Woburn Web Site.   Well known public sculptor  Bob Shure created a  bronze statue representing a tanner and his family,  which was added to the top of the clock to commemorate Woburn's  industrial history.

How to improve an antique? Have Electric Time Company provide a clock for it! The ultra-hip restaurant and nightclub LAVO in New York City asked ETC to place clock faces in an old rusty antique wrought iron sign frame. After painstakingly restoring the frame and recreating missing parts, two 30” back lighted clocks were added. The frame was carefully painted and highlighted and the clock rings were fitted to the frame. The double sided clock now proudly hangs above the LAVO entrance on 58th Street, between Madison and Park Avenues

2010 marked the 150th anniversary of the Marietta College Phi Beta Kappa - Gamma of Ohio Chapter. Members of the Gamma chapter donated a Large Two Dial Howard Replica Street Clock to the College where it was unveiled during Homecoming Weekend. The clock sits proudly on The Christy Mall and has been very well received by the Marietta Ohio campus. A video was made of the dedication on October 30, 2010.

Crazy winter weather has hit Medfield! If you tried to call or email us and weren’t able to reach anyone – we apologize! Mother Nature has dumped almost 2’ of heavy wet snow on us and our power and telephone have been out for most of the past two days. Anxiously awaiting spring…!

Medfield Street Clock