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

LOT 613

Hamilton Watch Co., Lancaster, PA, No. 2639496, Grade 950E, made for "Santa Fe" Railroad Company between 1939 - 41.Very fine and rare, 14K yellow gold-filled, two-time zone, keyless, 23-jewel Railroad watch with a Montgomery dial.

C. Three-piece, screwed bezel and back, engine-turned bezels, reeded band. D. Double-sunk white enamel with painted bold Arabic numerals, outer 60-minute Montgomery ring with black and red numerals, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "Spade" hands, red one for the second time zone. M. 16 size, nickel, bridge caliber, damascened, 23 jewels, the top ones in screwed gold settings, gold center wheel, straight line lever escapement with sapphire pallets, monometallic balance with gold screws adjusted to5 positions, Breguet balance-spring, Reed's patented whiplash micrometric regulator, lever-set.Signed on dial, case and movementDiam. 48 mm.