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

LOT 607

Hamilton Watch Co., Lancaster, PA, No. 1634995, Grade 950, made 1922-23.Very fine, keyless, 14K yellow gold, 23-jewel, Railroad watch.

C. Three-body, hinged bezel and back, engine-turned bezel, back centered by a blank crest, floral and foliate decoration, hinged cuvette. D. Double-sunk white enamel with painted bold Arabic numerals, outer minute ring with 5-minute red Arabic markers, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "Spade" hands. M. 16 size, nickel, bridge caliber, damascened, 23 jewels, gold wheel train, straight line lever escapement with sapphire pallets, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with gold screws adjusted to 5 poitions, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, Reed's patented whiplash micrometric regulator, motor barrel, lever-set.Signed on dial, case and movementDiam. 48 mm.