English gilded brass pair cased Masonic pocket watch Circa 1790

Gilt Freemason’s watch
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An English gilt brass pair cased key wound verge Masonic pocket watch, circa 1790. The gilded verge movement with a pierced and engraved gilded English cock. White enamel dial with radial Roman hours, outer minute divisions, Arabic quarter hour numerals and original arrow hands. The round shaped outer case with Masonic emblems, depicting clockwise the Eye of Providence, Stars, a Hive, Square and Compass, the Mosaic Pavement, a Level and Rule Level, Noah’s Ark surmounted by a Dove representing the Holy Spirit and, in the center, the Temple of Solomon and the Sun.
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Diameter inner case: 47 mm
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Diameter outer case: 55 mm
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Signed: Edw. Darwin London
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Freemasonry or Masonry is a worldwide spread and regionally structured fellowship that strives for spiritual and moral elevation, mutual appreciation and helping each other. It is a society with rituals. Its members are called Freemasons or Masons. They address each other as brother or sister. Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 13th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.