Centraal Beheer (Netherlands ) Commercial 1989 Tower Clock

[Robert Gift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT3tRYncDr8
(I do not get it.)

[countryman]

It's an ad for an insurance company.

[tubaman]

Nice!

It's an ad for an insurance company.

I assumed it was but did do a quick Google translate check just to be sure.

[Robert Gift]

Yes, advertisement for Centraal Beheer Insurance.
But I do not get what happened.
Someone called him to correct time?

[countryman]

The Radio said the exact time and he thought he might set the big clock correctly. Not the smartest ad if you asked me. But nice view of the dutch landscape 
You must have googled "central clock" to find this :-)

[TelePlay]

If you look deeper, there have to be 20+ similar ads (scroll down when playing any clip) for this company all ending with a mishap, a reason to be insured and hopefully by them.

Some of the ads that end in near disaster are quite funny (the guy painting the center line on a mountain road nearly going over the edge, surviving to continue painting but leaving a white center line guiding cars off the mountain road into the sea).

https://youtu.be/4efHNdR96uU?si=WOVmurfkbXCNX8_y

Takes a good sense of humor, a wide knowledge of life realities, and an open mind to understand the plot and laugh at these ads.