This wall clock belongs to a Chinese family living in post-war Singapore.The manufacture and repair of clocks ceased during the Japanese Occupation in Singapore and only watch repairing service was available. Due to inflation, the price for watch repairing service increased from three dollars per watch in 1942 to ten dollars in the second year of the occupation and 50 dollars before the end of the war. After the war, the trade for clocks and watches reached its peak in the late 1960s and by then clocks became a necessity for most families.
