A rare, large and unusual electric powered wall clock with sweep centre seconds
Lot 98

A rare, large and unusual electric powered wall clock with sweep centre seconds

Signed Rolex, Chronometer, Pan Am, circa 1960

Closed12 November 2018

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CHF 15,000

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A rare, large and unusual electric powered wall clock with sweep centre seconds
Signed Rolex, Chronometer, Pan Am, circa 1960
Movement: electric powered motor, 110-120V, cable and American plug
Dial: signed Rolex, Chronometer, Pan Am
Case: motor and Pan American World Airways label “Property of Pan American Airlines, 804 17th Street, Denver Colorado” to the back, 50 cm. diam.

Specialist note

A rare find these large size clocks are the ultimate trophy for the collector of Rolex ephemera. Manufactured for Pan Am or Pan American World Airlines by the Hanover Manufacturing, Inc. in Ohio, they were used in the offices of Pan Am, at airport check in desks and perhaps also at Rolex retailers as advertisement for the collaboration between the two firms, resulting in the creation of the celebrated GMT-Master in the mid-1950s.