The suites get their name from the Torre del’Orologio that overlooks Saint Mark’s Square, which is most likely the most well known Clock Tower in the world after Big Ben in London. The tower is so famous because of its location on one of the most visited streets in Venice.
The origins of the clock date back to the year 1493 when the Serenissima Republic asked Giancarlo Raniere to specially make a moving clock that would show the hour and also the movements of the moon and the sun. The tower was built to accommodate a new clock and was built at a later time somewhere between the dates of 1496 and 1499.
