The Art of American Horology & Colle...

New York, Nov 28, 2001

LOT 93

E. Howard Watch Co., Boston, U.S.A., by Keystone, No. 1275816, circa 1915.Very fine and elegant, 14K gold, keyless dress watch.

C. three-body "bassine", by Keystone, polished, gold hinged cuvette with circular engine-turned border. D. white enamel with bold Roman numerals, outer minute ring, sunk subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet/Howard hands. M. 10 size, nickel, bridge caliber, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 17 jewels, adjusted to temperature and 3 positions, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with blued steel Breguet balance spring, spring-loaded micrometric regulator.Signed on the dial, case and movement. Movement also engraved "Pat'd'12".Diam. 46 mm.