Twemco is a manufacturer of

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, China. The company emerged in 1956 and became a fully-fledged clockmaker by 1968. The factory shop is located in the

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area. Twemco is the world's leading manufacturer of automatic flip clocks and its products became a symbol of Hong Kong precision engineering during the mid-20th century. The company claims to have sold almost 1 million clocks. The design of Twemco's desk clocks resembles that of the world's first flip clock, the

Cifra 3 The Cifra 3 is a digital flip clock manufactured by Solari di Udine, S.p.A., Italy designed by Italian architect Gino Valle (1923–2003) in 1965, with significant contribution from John Myer, a Belgian inventor. The Cifra 3 is widely considered ...

designed in Italy in 1965. In Hong Kong, Twemco clocks are a fixture in banks, government buildings and offices. This has led the clocks to become associated with the film aesthetic of Hong Kong director

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