PORR & Sons

855,Mount Road, Madras
In 1879,P.ORR & SONS moved into its present location on Mount Road, Chennai. With wooden staircases, Winding designed by Chisholm Friba, who was then the consultant architect of Madras.

Clock Tower
The three face clock tower on the building was connected to the Madras Observatory.The company was so particular that the clock showed the correct time that it was checked and the time corrected every hour.

Clocks, Diamonds and Bicycles
In the early years, P.ORR & SONS sold precious metals and jewellery. Besides dealing in clocks and watches from Britain, France and Switzerland, the company manafactured bicycles and was also an agent for certain automobile companies. But with the independence came the ban on imports and the company began marketing Indian watches.

Today
In 1967 the late Mr.Karumuthu Thiagarajan Chettiar purchased P.ORR & SONS , making it a part of Loyal Textile mills Ltd. Apart from the P.ORR & SONS has three other outlets in Chennai(madras) and one each in Madurai and Coimbatore.

With such long history of keeping time , P.ORR & SONS has acquired an enviable reputation of quality, trust and reliability- which few can match.