This company has made clocks for the Royapettah Clock Tower, Anna University, and Spencer’s Plaza to name a few. For this #TriviaThursday, can you tell us which company is this?
In 1906, Haji Mirza Abdul Gani Namazi, whose family had come to Madras from Iran, began a small watch shop called the South India Watch Company. When it didn't take off the way they had expected, well-wishers suggested changing the name to something more Indian-
- upon which in 1909, #GaniandSons began its journey. In the year 1924, they earned the first feather in their cap when they were appointed Distributors for Westend & Longines watches of Switzerland, making wholesale business an important activity of the firm. 
M.M.J. Namazi has been in charge since 1974. Gani and Sons specialise in clock towers and grandfather clocks and have made clocks for the Royapettah Clock Tower, Anna University, Sterling Towers and Spencer’s Plaza to name a few.
The firm received many orders for installing tower and public clocks from not only the areas which form the present states of South India viz. Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh, but also places which came under the Bombay Presidency and in faraway Assam.
Over 100 such large towers and public clocks have been installed and maintained by them since then, an achievement that not more than 5 firms in the whole of India can boast of. The three-storey showroom that they moved into in 1914, on Rattan Bazaar Road, is almost defunct-
- with only the ground floor open to the public as a showroom. While they do sell clocks and watches, they're the service centre for a lot of international brands.
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