Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Pocket Watch with Masonic Symbols
ca. 1930
Schwab-Loellet
Switzerland: Geneva
Gold, steel, mother-of-pearl, paint
overall: 2-3/8"h x 2-1/8"w x 1/2"d
Gift of Robert O. Ralston
97.002

Masonic Pocket Watch; triangular shaped; mother-of-pearl and enamel dial with Masonic symbols to the mark hours; face reads "LOVE YOUR FELLOW MAN/ LEND HIM A HELPING HAND"; below reads "Swiss"; Masonic symbols in raised relief on reverse lid, including low relief of a Masonic altar enclosed within a Masonic Royal Arch; above, in the apex divided by the cover's hinge, is an All-seeing-eye and the letter "G"; gold case has a chain-pattern border with a blue stone set in the apex; above, a triangular winding stem; reverse hinges open, stamped "USA/ PATENT/ 66542/ ENGLISH/ PATENT 713 821/ SWISS/ PATENT 36889" and "1331/ GARANTI 10 ANS/ SCHWAB-LOELLET/ GENEVE (SUISSE)"; upper portion of the lid is stamped "331" (serial # 1331).