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Roosevelt Hotel, Madison Avenue @ 45th Street, Dec 04, 2002

LOT 347

Unsigned, Swiss, made for the Islamic market, circa 1900.Fine, 18K gold, hunting-cased keyless minute-repeating watch with full calendar and chronograph.

C. four-body, "bassine et filets", front engraved with scrolling, center with Arabic characters, probably from the first lines of Koran, gold hinged cuvette engraved within scrolling and signed Alli Bin Khamis, Bin Ali Mandri.D. white enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute/seconds track with five-minute/seconds Arabic markers, four subsidiary sunk dials for days of the week, date, months and subsidiary seconds concentric with phases of the moon aperture. "Spade" blued steel hands. M. 45 mm, (20'''),frosted gilt, 17 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with blued steel Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs through activating slide in the band.Diam. 53 mm