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

LOT 663

Elgin National Watch Co., Elgin, Ill., No. 4051881, "Order of Railway Conductors", "B.W. Raymond", Grade 116, circa 1891.Fine, gold-filled, keyless, Railroad Brotherhood watch.

C. Four-body, "bassine et filets" by "Keystone", hinged bezel and back, bezel and band with vermicelli decoration, back with floral and foliate pattern, hinged cuvette, inside engine-turned pattern.D. White enamel double-sunk with "twig" gold painted Roman numerals, outer minute ring, subsidiary seconds, upper part of dial painted with "Order of Railway Conductors" logo. Blued steel "Fleurs-de-Lis" hands. M. 18 size, nickel, full plate, damascened, 15 jewels, the top ones in screwed settings, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold screws, adjusted, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, Moseley and Hunter micrometric regulator, safety pinion, pendant-setDial and movement signed.Diam. 55 mm.