The clock finally arrived in 1842 and was installed in the tower of the Casa Consistorial. It replaced the previous clock in the tower – an old colonial Jesuit clock. It was the first truly public clock in Guayaquil. Before the Jesuit clock, there was a clock installed by the Dominicans, and that was the first clock the city had, but it was located in the cloister of their convent, and it only repeated certain hours in its bells, and its functioning depended on two things: it only worked during the day and on sunny days, because it was a sundial.