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Noga Hilton, Geneva, Apr 12, 2003

LOT 340

Love Your Fellow Man, Lend Him a Helping HandSchwab & Brandt, Geneva,No. 2583/400028, circa 1935.Very fine and extremely rare 20K gold triangular keyless Masonic dress watch.

CHF 11,000 - 13,000

EUR 7,600 - 9,000 / USD 8,000 - 9,600

Sold: CHF 11,500

C.Two-piece, the back centered with Solomon's Temple, Masonic symbols around, front bezel decorated with chain links, sapphire-set winding crown. D. Mother-of-pearl, triangular with multicolored Masonic symbols for the numerals, outer minute divisions, printed with motto. Blued steel Masonic hands. M. Triangular, 46 x 46 mm., rhodium-plated, 16 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring.Signed on the movement.Dim. Height 51 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3
Movement: 3*
Dial: 2 - 01

Notes

On Feb 3, 1925 Theophile Schwab-Loeillet from Geneva, at 22 Rue de Mont-Blanc (two blocks from Antiquorum) patented a Masonic watch design which he traded under the name of Tempor Watch Co. The company was listed until the late 1920s. 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 made the watch much slimmer. They production must have been very lmited - we have seen only four of them.