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

LOT 656

Elgin National Watch Co., No. 15422774, "B.W. Raymond" Grade, circa 1910.Very fine and rare, 14K white gold-filled, keyless, Railroad watch with an unusual "U of NA" dial.

C. Three-piece, by Keystone, No. 7823114, J. Boss patent, B.W. Raymond Model, polished with bezels chased with lozenge motif.D. White enamel, double sunk, upright bold Roman numerals, outer minute track with five-minute Arabic markers, center painted with stylized letter "S" in four colors with letters "U of NA" inside, "No. 217" below, the top with red letters "J.W.F.", subsidiary sunk seconds with center painted with railroad symbols. Blued steel, "Spade" hands. M. 16 size, nickel, half-plate, fully damascened, 19 jewels with raised gold settings, straight line counterpoised lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensaion balance with blued steel Breguet balance spring, Moseley & Hunter patented (US pat. No. 157021) micrometric regulator, lever-set.Signed on the movement, case signed "B.W. Raymond Model", dial signed by U of NA.Diam. 52 m|M|