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

LOT 581

E. Howard & Co., Boston, Mass., No. 223277, Series IV, circa 1876.Very fine and extremely rare, 14K multicolored gold and diamond-set, hunting-cased, box-hinged, keyless watch.

C. Four-body, "bassine et filets", full box hinged, by "C.W.W.C. Co.", lavishly decorated with applied gold floral and foliate pattern, back centered with a diamond, reeded band, gold hinged cuvette.D. White enamel with painted Roman numerals, outer minute ring with 5-minute Arabic markers, sunk sub-seconds. Blued steel "Crescent" hands. M. N size, nickel, 3/4 plate, damascened, "horse"-grade, 15 jewels, most in raised screwed gold settings, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold screws, blued steel flat balance-spring, Reed's patented whiplash micrometric regulator.Signed on dial and movement.Diam. 55 mm.