The Art of American Horology Part ll,...

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

LOT 671

Illinois Watch Co., Springfield, No. 5068305, "Bunn Special", Model 29, circa 1927.Fine, gold-filled, 60-hour, 23-jewel Railroad watch. Accompanied by an original box.

C. Three-piece, "bassine et filets", screw bezel and back, by "Wads-worth", polished. D. white enamel, double-sunk with bold Arabic numerals, outer minute ring, subsidiary sunk seconds. Blued steel "Double Swell Spade" hands. M. 16 size, nickel, 3/4 split plate, damascened, 23 jewels, the top ones in screwed raised gold settings, gold wheel train, straight line lever escapement with sapphire pallets, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with gold screws adjusted to temperatures and 6 positions, bued steel Breguet balance spring, Reed's patented whiplash micrometric regulator, double roller, motor barrel, lever-set.Signed on the dial, case and movement, case also signed "Bunn Special Model 29".Diam. 51 mm.