Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jul 23, 2020

LOT 101

Schwab & Brandt
Masonic watch, triangular-shaped case and mother-of-pearl dial with Masonic emblems; silver

HKD 5,600 - 9,600

CHF 700 - 1,200 / USD 750 - 1,300

Silver (0.925), open-face, keyless-winding, triangular-shaped with rounded corners, pocket watch. Case-back decorated with the Temple of Salomon with its two columns, Skull and others symbols, at the top, the Eye of Providence with the letter “G” (God, Gnose or Geometry); the bezel decorated with the Chain. Mother-of-pearl dial with the precept “Love your fellow man, lend him a helping hand” and different Masonic symbols in place of the numerals (working tools of the various degrees of Freemasonry); clockwise: Eye of Providence, Level, Crescent Moon, a column of the Temple of Solomon with the letter “J” (Jachin), Mallet, Compass and Rule Level, Skull, Ax and Stone, Square, a column of the Temple of Solomon with the letter “B” (Boaz), Sun, Trowel, and, at the top, the Holy Spirit.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3-6-11

Good

Slightly oxidized

Slightly worn

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Brand Schwab & Brandt, Geneva

Year circa 1929-1930

Case No. 2 843 (by “G S”; with London import marks for 1929- 1930)

Caliber 12’’’, lever escapement, 3 adjustments

Dimensions 62 mm. (with bow) x 51.3 mm.

Signature movement

Notes

Watch based on designs registered in 1924 by Théophile Schwab Loeillet, Geneva (22, rue du Mont-Blanc), in:
• Switzerland: No. 18 195, No. 25 265, No. 34 864 and No. 36 889;
•France: No. 509;
•Great Britain: No. 713 821;
•U.S.A.: No. 66 542 (February 3, 1925; filed June 2, 1924; for a term of 14 years).
It’s seems that a maximum of 1 800 to 2 000 examples were produced, some by Holy Frères, Saint-Imier (Bernese Jura), some by Huguenin Frères, Le Locle (Neuchâtel mountains); these two companies being at the time the main ones in the field of the manufacture of stamped watch cases.