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

LOT 673

Illinois Watch Co., No. 2008982, Model 6, Motsinger's "Cotton Belt", by circa 1907.Fine, yellow gold-filled, keyless, Private Label, Cotton Belt, Railroad watch.

C. Three-piece, "bassine" by "Dueber", screw bezel and back with engine-turned and foliate pattern. D. White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute ring with 5-minute red Arabic markers, sunk subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "Fleur-de-Lis" hands. M. 18 size, nickel, full plate, straight line damascening, ("fausses-côtes" deco-ration), 17 jewels, the top ones in screwed settings, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, Reed's pateted whiplash micrometric regu-lator.Signed on dial and movement, movement also engraved "Rector and Senath".Diam. 54 mm.