We get a lot of Metamecs in because they are relatively difficult quartz conversions or mechanical repairs.
My first clock repair was a Metamec and Ive always liked their style. They are set apart from other contemporaries because they are themed with Icons or suggestions of Freemasonary. They just are. The pillars of the Temple Of Soloman, and that pillar symetry look, is all over the 50’s and 60’s models. Then theres the eye shaped geometry in many clocks. Always a single focal point. Often intersected by symetical lines suggesting the set square or compass or both. The damn things almost look at you in the eye from a dollar bill.
Ive read the Metamec book. Ive spent time with Wallace King who was sales manager for them in the 60’s. Hes a Mason. That sort of made sense with the clock design. I took it as a given that masonry must have been in the company DNA. But heres the thing…Wallace said that the guy responsible for the pioneering modernist design, Captain Smart I think his name was, was not a Mason. Wallace said the designs were not masonic as far as he was aware. What?. How?. Wallace, it IS masonic design. No. Give up. Odd.
I believe the was a masonic deep cover mole at Metamec. Massive conspiracy. Possibly. You heard it here first.
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