An example of a skilled Filipino watchmaker who wanted to change the old and substandard method in watch repairing in the country and become global but could not afford expensive equipment so he designed and made them and developed the curriculum in watch repair technician. (Story in blog archive October 2009)

Saturday, November 21, 2020

The Lakan Tower Clock

The Lakan Tower Clock installed at PNPA SILANG is using the first Filipino idea ever made to a clock movement with only two wheels inside. The center minute wheel that carries the minute hand and the hour wheel that carries the hour hand. They are being driven by two separate motors controlled digitally by a quartz oscillator adjusted to oscillate at +1.44 min/year. During time setting of the hands...the clock is using a remote control to set both chime and time. The minute and hour hands can be adjusted independently to each other. It has an hourly Westminster melody and chime with special 5am Reveille Call and 10pm Taps inserts especially requested by the PNPAAAI Officials. After 10pm the clock goes silent until at 5am playing the Reveille Call. Backlighting is automatically controlled day and night. The Lakan Tower Clock was designed by a Filipino clockmaker Israel "le arsi" Angeles, your teacher/inventor at Phil. Watch Repair Training Center, Inc. (PWRTCI) MANILA...the first to introduce the "two-wheel direct drive clock movement" in the Phils and in the world!

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Teacher in watch repair technology, awarded as Top Inventor of the Year 2003, tower clockmaker