Jam Gadang ( Clock Tower )

Clock Tower is named for Big Ben clock tower similar to that located in the center of Bukittinggi, West Sumatra, Indonesia. This clock has a clock tower with a large size on four sides so called the Clock Tower, which when translated from Minang into the Indonesian language it means "jam besar".

Aside from being a marker of central town of Bukittinggi, the Clock Tower has also been used as a tourist attraction with the construction of the park around the tower at this. The park is a public interaction space either on weekdays or on holidays.

So the events of a general nature are usually organized around the park near the clock tower, one of which is the point of commencement of Stage 4 Tour de Singkarak 2011.

Clock Tower has a ground-plan area of ​​13 x 4 meters. The inside of the clock tower at 26 meters it consists of several levels, where the top level is a storage area pendulum. The pendulum had broken and had to be replaced by an earthquake in 2007.

There are 4 hours each with a diameter of 80 cm at the Clock Tower, where machine-hour clock and the surface is located at one level below the top level. Clock is shipped directly from Rotterdam, Netherlands via the Gulf ports Bayur and mechanically driven by a machine that only made ​​2 units in the world, the Clock Tower itself and Big Ben in London, England.

Clock Tower was built without the use of iron peyangga and mortar. Only mixtures of lime, egg white, and white sand. The uniqueness of the Clock Tower itself is the mistake of writing the Roman numeral four (IV) on each day is written "IIII". Kesahalan writing is also common in parts of the world, like the number 9 written "VIIII" (supposedly IX) or the number 28 is written "XXIIX" (should XXVIII).