The Art of American Horology & Colle...

New York, Nov 28, 2001

LOT 57

American Waltham Watch Co., Waltham, Mass., "Riverside Maximus", No. 13006435, circa 1904.Very fine, gold-filled, keyless Railroad Grade watch.

C. three-body, "bassine et filets" by "Roy", engine-turned back with blank shield in the center, stepped bezels engraved with vermicelli pattern, band with matching vermicelli pattern. D. white enamel, double sunk, Arabic numerals, outer minute ring with five-minute red Arabic markers, sunk subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "Parallel Spade" hand. M. 16 size, nickel, bridge caliber, damascened, 23 jewels, the top ones in gold friction settings, adjusted, gold wheel train, straight line lever escapeent, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with gold screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan neck micrometric regulator.Signed on the dial and movement. Diam. 50.8 mm.