Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Jun 14, 2007

LOT 230

Harris & Shafer, Washington D.C., No. 297375, case No 85841. Made in Switzerland circa 1905. Fine, hunting cased, keyless, 14K yellow gold pocket watch.

C. Four-body, "bassine et filets", solid, entirely engine-turned, hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with painted Arabic numerals, outer minute track with 5-minute blue markers, subsidiary seconds dial at 6. Black "spade" hands. M. Cal. 18 1/2"', maillechort, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement ?á moustache?, cut bimetallic compensation balance, adjusted, blued steel Breguet balance spring, ?swan-neck? micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 50 mm.