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

LOT 623

Hamilton Watch Co., Lancaster, PA, No. 115228, Grade 927, made in 1900.Very fine, 14K gold, 23-jewel, keyless watch.

C. Four-body, "bassine" triple-hinged, polished, gold hinged cuvette.D. White enamel, double sunk Breguet numerals, outer minute track, sunk sub-seconds. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. 16 size, nickel, bridge caliber, "fausses côtes" decoration (straight line damascening), 23 jewels in raised gold settings, 8 adjustments, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with blued steel Breguet balance spring, Reed's patented whiplash micrometric regulator, pendant set.Signed on dial, case and movement.Diam. 50 mm.