Master clockmaker Michel Madawar recalls his journey from Lebanon to Palos Verdes
Michel Medawar admires the new flowers planted around his clock he gave to the City of Rolling Hills Estates. Now located on the corner of Silver Spur and Harlyne Norris Drive at the Promenade Shopping Center. Small American flags are placed at the top of the clock. Photo by David Fairchild An interview with Michel Medawar, conducted by his son Roy My life and time have been immeasurably bound together. With each tick of the clock, I sense the guidance of God, moment by moment. My journey to Palos Verdes is a measure of the ticks and tocks of the timepiece of my life. In 1976, at age 41, I was living out my dreams in a land I deeply loved. Lebanon was home. My home. It had only been seven short years since the dedication of the first talking flower clock in the world in the heart of Lebanon, in Beirut. On the hour the clock announced the time in three languages: Arabic, English and French. At noon it played the Lebanese National Anthem. And then, on November 22 each year, tens of thousands would gather around that clock at noon to celebrate the Lebanese Independence Day. I still hear that anthem play for those few moments at my first clock, and though surrounded by thousands, you…
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