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New York, Nov 28, 2001

LOT 37

American Waltham Watch Co., Waltham, Mass., "Riverside Maximus", No. 12656318, circa 1903.Very fine, 14K gold, hunting-cased, keyless watch in an unusual case.

C. four-body, "bassine" by Keystone, both covers entirely engraved, with the same decoration consisting of applied gold flowers and dots on different types of vermicelli patterns, alternating with star flinque patterns, band engraved with vermicelli pattern. D. bicolored enamel, double sunk, Arabic numerals, outer minute ring with five-minute red Arabic markers, sunk subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "Parallel Spade" hands. M. 16 size, nickel, bridge caliber, damascened, 23 jewels, the top ones ingold friction settings, adjusted, gold wheel train, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with gold screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan neck micrometric regulator.Signed on the dial and movement. Diam. 51.6 mm.