The Art of American Horology Part ll,...

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

LOT 592

E. Howard Watch Co., Keystone, No. 953144, Series O, circa 1909.Very fine and rare, 14K gold, 23-jewel, keyless watch. Accompanied by an original wooden fitted box and certificate.

C. Four-body, "bassine", "Howard", No. 103386, triple-hinged, monogrammed back, gold hinged cuvette. D. White enamel, double sunk, Breguet numerals, outer minute track with five-minute red Arabic markers, sunk sub-seconds. Blued steel "Spade" hands.M. 16 size, nickel, bridge caliber, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 23 jewels, 8 adjustments, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with blued steel Breguet balance spring, Reed's patented whiplash micrometric regulator, motor barrel.Signed on dial, case and movement.Diam. 49 mm.