Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 14, 2006

LOT 242

E. Howard Watch Co., Boston, U.S.A., No. 1122385, case No. 141965. Made circa 1910. Very fine and elegant, 14K gold, keyless dress watch.

C. Three-body, "bassine", by Keystone, solid, polished, gold hinged cuvette with circular engine-turned border. D. White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute ring with 5-minute red markers, sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel ?spade? hands. M. 12 size, nickel, bridge caliber, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 19 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance adjusted to temperature and 3 positions, blued steel Breguet balance spring, ?swan-neck? micrometer regulator, sapphire pallets. Dial, case and movement signed, movement also engraved "Pat'd'08". Diam. 46 mm.