No matter how many you’ve seen, there are always more! First up, a Lawson Carlton, model 402. Made at Lawson Time’s Los Angeles factory in the 1930s, and probably not for long, I had seen one of these but couldn’t …
The job of a Lawson clock chronicler is never done. First, we have the solution to a mystery. Thirteen years ago, a clock turned up that might have been a Lawson, but it didn’t resemble any other Lawson, and it …
Due to the economics of printing a specialized book like Moderne Time, I’m fairly certain there won’t be an updated “v.2” edition. The good news is that if you’d like a copy, 165 remain (as of Sept. 2020) and they’re …
More Lawson Art Deco clocks on the big screen: Shadow Of Doubt (1935). Ricardo Cortez was one of the great Latin lovers who, it was hoped would fill the void left by the death of Rudolph Valentino. (Cortez was actually Jakob Krantz from New …
Since many Lawson Art Deco clocks would cost several hundred dollars in today’s currency, I wondered who sold these luxury items during the Depression.