Large Swiss gilt eight day going Masonic keyless watch Circa 1920

Kenmerk: FA0239
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Estimate: € 2.250 - 4.000
Price sold: -

Gilt Masonic watch
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An unusual Swiss large gilded brass eight day going keyless Masonic timepiece, circa 1920. The nickel movement with 15 jewels, a straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with three adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance spring an an index regulator.
White enamel dial with 12 Freemason symbols for the hours, the motto Love Your Fellow Man Lend Him A Helping Hand, an outer minute track with Arabic 20 minute numerals and black cathedral hands. A plain triangular case.
Case and movement signed.
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Dimensions: 114 x 85 mm
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Signed: Tempor Watch Co – Schwab-Loeillet Swiss
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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 Swiss