Antique Dudley Masonic Watch
19 Jewels Model 2 , Holy Bible Masonic movement , guilded pallet bridge matching plates , 12 size , Stunning shape , case and movement are excellent , metal dial has blemishing , the watch was obviously well kept and always professionally Serviced over the years , only 2800 of these were produced in between 1925 and 1935 , case is 14kt gold Filled Keystone Jboss , dubbed as the Masons Model , open diamond hands a lovely watch . rare and exquisite sn: 3056 ..lot nb D152
About Dudley :
William Wallace Dudley was born in 1851 in St. John, New Brunswick Canada. He began his career as a horologist at the age of 13, when he became an apprentice to a maker of ship chronometers in Canada. Some years later after completing his apprenticeship, he moved to the United States and joined the Waltham Watch factory in Waltham, Mass., where he was employed as a model maker.
Dudley moved around from one watch factory to another gaining knowledge and experience. He went to Springfield, Ill., where he was connected with the Illinois Watch Company, and later moved to South Bend, Indiana, where he joined the South Bend Watch Company as superintendent. His next move was back east to Chambersburg, N.J., to work for the Trenton Watch Company. From 1906 to 1920, he was designer and superintendent of manufacture at the Hamilton Watch Company, Lancaster, Pa., but left at the age of 69 to fulfill his dream of establishing a watch factory. It is believed Mr. Dudley had seen the the M. Tobias & Co. watch made in England with the two Masonic emblems in the balance cock.
Deeply interested in Freemasonry, he was a member of both York and Scottish Rites, the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and the Tall Cedars of Lebanon.
