The Art of American Horology & Colle...

New York, Nov 28, 2001

LOT 92

E. Howard Watch Co., Boston, U.S.A., No. 1138721, circa 1912.Fine and elegant, 14K gold, keyless, dress watch.

C. two-body "consular" by "The K.W.C. Co.", polished, back cover with engine-turned ring inside. D. White enamel, Breguet numerals, outer minute divisions with five-minute red Arabic markers, sunk subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "Light Double Swell Spade" hands. M. 10 size, nickel, bridge caliber, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 17 jewels, adjusted, straight line lever escapement with cut-bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring.Signed on the dial, case and movement. Movement engraved "Pat'd''.Diam. 47 mm.