7,080 CHF
"Love Your Fellow Man, Lend Him a Helping Hand" Tempor Watch Co. , Swiss. Made circa 1930. Fine, silver, triangular, keyless, eight-day going, Masonic desk clock in the original leather fitted box. Mother-of-pearl, triangular with colored painted Masonic symbols for the numerals, outer minute track, printed with the motto "Love Your Fellow Man, Lend Him a Helping Hand". Notes This watch is based on a design patented in the USA by Theophile Schwab Loeillet from Geneva, 22 Rue de Mont-Blanc on Feb 3, 1925. Schwab established the company in the 1880s, and from about 1910 he traded as Tempor Watch Co.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-05-13