Rare Swiss silver triangle shaped Masonic lever watch Circa 1930

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Kenmerk: AD6562
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Estimate: € 1.500 - 2.500
Price sold: € 1.500

Silver Masonic watch by Schwab Loeillet
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A rare Swiss silver Freemason’s pocket watch, circa 1930. A case with cast and engraved ornaments, the blue enamelled letters GJB on the front and a paste stone in the pendant, the hinged case back centred with Solomon’s Temple surrounded by Masonic symbols and inscribed Deposé 18195, B.S.G.D.G. 509. White enamel dial, multicoloured Masonic symbols for the hours with clockwise the Eye of Providence, a level, crescent Moon and Stars, a column of the Temple of Solomon with the letter B for Boaz, a mallet, Compass and Rule level, skull, Ax and Stone, square, a column of the Temple of Solomon with the letter J for Jachin, the Sun, a trowel and at the top the Holy Spirit, the motto Aime Ton Semblable Tends Lui Une Main Secourable (Love your fellow man lend him a helping hand in English) and gold Louis XVI hands. The signed frosted gilt bridge movement with a cylinder escapement and monometallic balance.
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Dimensions: 54 x 52 mm
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Weight: 59 g
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Signed: Tempor Watch Co – Schwab-Loeillet Genève
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Schwab-Loeillet was located at 22 Rue du Mont-Blanc in Geneva and listed until the late 1920s. It was first mentioned in 1887 as Loeillet & Schwab (LS). In 1888, the company’s name was changed to Schwab & Loeillet.

Théophile Schwab-Loeillet patented a Masonic watch design on February 3rd, 1925, under the name Tempor Watch Co (US patent No. 66542, English patent No. 713821, Swiss patent No. 25265, 34864 and 36889). In 1930, the company was listed as “Schwab & Brandt, formerly Schwab-Loeillet, the only makers of Masonic watches”. They modified the 1925 design, introducing triangular, high quality movements and making the watch much slimmer.
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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.

Signed: Tempor Watch Co – Schwab-Loeillet Genève