A 26 de Abril de 2016, a Jones & Horan Horological Specialists, de Goffstown, New Hampshire, especializada em relojoaria, levava à praça um relógio de bolso Elgin, de temática maçónica e templária, com a leiloeira a presumir (pensamos que erradamente) que uma das gravuras representaria o Convento de Cristo, em Tomar, fundado pelos Cavaleiros da Ordem do Templo. Sobre Tomar e os Templários, já escrevemos bastante, como se vê aqui ou aqui.
Da ficha do leilão:
Lot 162 in
our Sunday auction, Elgin with rare full-color Crusader dial, also called
Knights Templar dial in near mint 14K gold hunter case. Estimate $2-3,000.
We sold the
black and white Rockford version of this dial in 2015, and have another Elgin
black and white version, dial only, offered in this auction.
The present
dial is superbly coloured, with gold cross above and gold-edged cross below.
The Crusader imagery was inspired by the exploits of the original Knights
Templar from the 12th through 14th centuries, and later the Freemasons and
other fraternal organizations of the West incorporated these elements and
symbols in their own rites, making this dial appealing to all such groups at
the time it was made. The castle by the shore being illuminated may be a
figurative reference to the Convent of Christ in Tomar, Portugal, well away
from the sea in the center of the country, built by the Knights Templar in
1160.
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