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New York, Nov 28, 2001

LOT 95

E. Howard & Co. Boston, by Keystone, No. 1276645, circa 1915.Very fine and elegant, 14K gold, keyless dress watch.

C. three-body by Keystone with hinged bezel, polished, gold hinged cuvette with engine-turned border. D. white enamel, bold Roman numerals, outer minute ring, sunk subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet/Howard hands. M. 16 size, nickel, bridge caliber, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 17 jewels, adjusted to temperature and 3 positions, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, 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.