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

LOT 622

Hamilton Watch Co., Lancaster, PA, No. 3004182, Grade 922, sold for $120 in 1925.Very fine, white gold-filled, 23-jewel watch. Accompanied by an original leather-fitted box, original certificate and matching gold chain.

C. Four-body, triple-hinged, chased band and bezels, gold hinged cuvette. D. Silvered with champlevé Arabic numerals, outer minute track, recessed sub-seconds. Blued steel "Arrow" hands. M. 12 size, nickel, bridge caliber, damascened in circular pattern, 23 jewels, 8 adjustments, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic com-pensation balance with blued steel Breguet balance spring, Reed's patented whiplash micrometric regulator, pendant set.Signed on dial, case and movement.Diam. 45 mm.