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

LOT 350

Gustave Sandoz, Horloger de la Marine de l'Etat, palais Royal 146, 147, 148, Paris, No. 9554, dated 25 June, 1877.Fine and rare, 18K gold, hunting-cased, astronomic, keyless pocket watch with full calendar.

C. four-body, "bassine et filets", polished with applied gold initials in the front, gold hinged cuvette. D. white enamel, Radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with five-minute Arabic markers, four subsidiary sunk dials for days of the week, date, phases of the moon aperture, and months concentric with subsidiary seconds.M. 44 mm,(19'''), gold-plated nickel, "fausses-c?tes" decoration, 20 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with blued steel Breguet balance spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 55 mm.