The Art of American Horology Part ll,...

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

LOT 540

Aristocrat with a HorseIllinois Watch Co., Springfield, No. 3834475, Model 6, "Aris-tocrat", circa 1921.Fine, almost mint-condition, 14K multicolored gold, hunting-cased, keyless watch.

C. Four-body, "bassine et filets" by "Roy", full box hinged, back centered by applied gold horse's head, flower and leaf stem below, vermicelli band, hinged cuvette. D. Double-sunk white enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute ring with 5-minute red Arabic markers, subsidiary seconds. "Breguet" blued steel hands. M. 16 size, nickel, 3/4 split plate with mocked bridges, damascened in unusual pattern, 17 jewels, the top ones in screwed raised gold settings, gold wheel train, straight line leverscapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold mean time screws, adjusted, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, Reed's patented whiplash micrometer regulator, double roller.Signed on the dial, case and movement.Diam. 49 mm.