Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, The Grand Havana Room, Sep 20, 2006

LOT 96

Hamilton Watch Co., Lancaster, Pennsylvania, No. 3012718, case No. 0162606. Made in the 1920s. Very fine, keyless, 14K white gold Art Deco dress watch.

C. Four-body, "demi-bassine et filets", solid, decorated with repetitive pattern, gold hinged cuvette. D. Matte silver with painted large Arabic numerals, outer minute track, sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel "cathédrale" hands. M. Cal.922, nickel, bridge caliber, "fausses- côtes" decoration, 23 jewels in raised gold settings, straight line lever escapement set with sapphires, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring adjusted to 5 positions, Reed's patented whiplash micrometer regulator, gold wheel train. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 44 mm.