The Art of American Horology Part ll,...

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

LOT 628

American Waltham Watch Co., Waltham, Mass., No. 7451984, Model 1883, "Crescent St." Grade, made between September 1897 and September 1898.Fine and unusual, yellow gold-filled, keyless, box-hinged watch with an "Order of Railway Conductors" dial.

C. Three-piece, "bassine", full box-hinged and screwed bezel and back, floral pattern on the back, vermicelli bezels and band.D. White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute ring with 5-minute Arabic markers, sunk sub-seconds, center a colored logo signed "O of RC". Blued steel hands. M. 18 size, nickel, full plate, elaborately damascened, 17 jewels, the top ones in screwed gold settings, lateral lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold screws, adjusted, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, Church type I patented (No. 312,253) micrometric regulator, safety pinion, pendant-set.Signed on dial and movement, dial also signed by O of RC.Diam. 55 mm.