Sotelo, 56, has been one of the steady hands behind the city’s tower clocks for the past 20 years. It mirrors how the City Hall works,” Sotelo said, recalling how his boss was reprimanded by Atienza when a major broadsheet published photographs of two of the clocks telling different times. The clock was first unveiled in 1930 and is “the largest clock tower in the Philippines,” the city government said on its website. “One person would fix the clock motors from inside the tower, while another person would watch from outside the City Hall to ensure that the glitches were fixed. The tower used to look like an abandoned warehouse full of court documents and smelled strongly of cat urine and rat feces.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer February 17, 2018 23:15 UTC