The Art of American Horology Part ll,...

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

LOT 590

E. Howard Watch Co., Keystone, No. 1113580, Series O, circa 1912.Very fine and rare, 14K gold, 23-jewel, keyless watch with a Montgomery dial.

C. Four-body, "bassine", triple-hinged, back chased and engraved with scrolling on vermicelli background, polish center, vermicelli band and bezel, gold hinged cuvette. D. White enamel, double sunk, bold Arabic numerals, outer dot minute ring with Montgomery numbers but set radially, sunk sub-seconds. Blued steel "American" bold hands. M. 16 size, nickel, bridge calibre, "fausses-côtes" deco-ration, 23 jewels, 8 adjustments, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance witblued steel Breguet balance spring, Reed's patented whiplash micrometric regulator, motor barrel.Signed on dial and movement.Diam. 50 mm.