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New York, Nov 28, 2001

LOT 39

American Watch Co., Waltham Mass., "Riverside Maximus", Colonial Series, No. 16025461, circa 1907.Very fine,18K gold, keyless watch.

C. three-body, "bassine", polished, gold hinged cuvette with engine-turned border. D. white enamel, Arabic numerals, outer five minute ring with five-minute red Arabic markers, sunk subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "American Spade" hands. M. 10 size, nickel, bridge caliber, damascened, 23 jewels in gold settings, adjusted, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with gold screws and blued steel Breguet balance spring, church type 2 micrometric regulator.Signed on the dial, case and movement. Diam. 48 mm.