The Art of American Horology Part ll,...

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

LOT 641

American Waltham Watch Co., Waltham Mass., No. 19403076, Model 1899, "Riverside Maximus" Grade, circa 1912.Very fine, 14K rose gold, 23-jewel, Railroad watch with a winding indicator and Lossier Inner Terminal Hairspring.

C. Three-body, "bassine" by "Waltham Watch Case Mfg. Co.", No. 19403076, polished, triple-hinged, monogrammed back, hinged gold cuvette. D. Double-sunk white enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute ring with five-minute red Arabic markers, up and down indicator at 12 o'clock, subsidiary sunk seconds. Blued steel "Spade" hands. M. 16 size, nickel, 3/4 split plate with mocked bridge, damascened, 23 jewels in raised gold settings, gold wheel train, straight line lever escapement with sapphire palets, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with gold screws adjusted to 8 positions, blued steel Breguet balance spring with outer and inner Lossier terminal curves, Reed's patented whiplash micrometric regulator.Signed on dial, case and movementDiam. 48 mm.