The Colgate Clock is an

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facing the

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near Exchange Place in

Jersey City, New Jersey Jersey City is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark. It is currently situated south of where the headquarters of consumer products conglomerate

Colgate-Palmolive Colgate-Palmolive Company is an American multinational consumer products company headquartered on Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The company specializes in the production, distribution, and provision of household, health car ...

used to be sited, before it left the area in 1985.

History

The Colgate Clock was once perched atop of at the Colgate plant at 85-99 Hudson Street in

Jersey City Jersey City is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark.Seth Thomas Clock Company The Seth Thomas Clock Company was founded by Seth Thomas and began producing clocks in 1813. It was incorporated as the "Seth Thomas Clock Company" in 1853. The company manufactured clock movements for the Self Winding Clock Company from 1886 th ...

for Colgate's centennial in 1906. After the current clock's construction, the earlier clock was relocated to a Colgate factory in

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. The Jersey City clock was maintained by John A. Winters from the 1930s until his retirement in 1976. As of 2005, the Colgate Clock stands on an otherwise empty lot; all of the other buildings in the complex were demolished in 1985 when Colgate left. The lot is located on the Hudson River waterfront and the clock itself is south of the Goldman Sachs Tower, once the tallest skyscraper in the state of New Jersey. The construction of that building in the early 2000s forced a relocation of the clock southward to its current location. At that time, the size of the Colgate advertisement attached to it was reduced to comply with the Hudson River No Billboard law. As a part of the relocation agreement Goldman Sachs now maintains the clock. The clock is a mandatory reporting point for flights below Class B airspace in the Hudson River VFR corridor. In 2013, the clock was refurbished, outfitted with

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lights, and reinstalled on the waterfront near the Goldman-Sachs tower.

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File:Colgate Clock in situ crop.jpg, The original location of the clock File:Colgate Clock Jersey City from Battery Park City.jpg, As seen from

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File:Colgate clock back crop.jpg, The rear of the clock, with

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in the background File:Colgate-clock.jpg, The clock at night, with the Goldman Sachs Tower in the foreground File:9.30.22ColgateClockByLuigiNovi6.jpg, The clock and the bench at its foot. Visible in the background are the

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and the

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. File:9.23.22ColgateClockByLuigiNovi5.jpg, Inscribed on the bench at the foot of the clock are the words "The Colgate Clock: Marking the Passage of Time since 1908."

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