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Easy Installation – Its Time for School!

Electric Time has always emphasized the ease of installing our equipment. We manufacture the clocks for your specific situation. Imagine our delight when we saw the video of a 54 inch, LED back-lit, canister clock being installed in a school clock tower. Thanks Shawmut Design & Construction – it was a pleasure working with you […]

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It’s Time for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

Happy Holidays from all of us at Electric Time Company. We wish you all the best this holiday season. Pictured left: Macy’s Flagship Store – Herald Square – New York City, NY, USA. Clock restoration and redesign. Exterior, three-sided clock with LED backlit 6’ glass clock dials. Raised dial markings. Gear detail behind dials. Completed […]

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Tower Clock Restoration – Union Station – Springfield, IL

Electric Time Company was pleased to be selected by White & Borgognoni Architects, P.C. and Halverson Construction Co. as the tower clock restoration experts for the Union Station Clock Tower. Working with historic drawings discovered by White & Borgognoni Architects, P.C., and old postcards and photographs – Electric Time recreated the four dials of the […]

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Church Clock Medway Community Church

Electric Time Company of Medfield, Massachusetts USA has retro-fitted new hand hubs on the existing gold leafed clock hands at the Medway Community Church of Medway, Massachusetts for use with their new Style C1G3 Church Clock Movements. The installation also has a 99B-MI automatic church clock controller that will reset the church clocks after a […]

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How to Light a Non-Illuminated Tower Clock

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 […]

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Tower Clocks are Part of Award Winning Building

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 […]

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Mendota Heights, MN – LED Color Changing Clock

Mendota Heights LED Color Changing Building Tower Clock Custom clocks for a client in Minnesota, Electric Time in a partnership with the lighting designer manufactured four custom clocks which are interconnected with the projects DMX controlled lighting system. Dials are made of a custom translucent glass and each clock is backlighted with RGB LED lighting […]

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