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

LOT 676

Illinois Watch Co., Springfield, Illinois, No. 1927779, Model 6, "Bunn Special" Grade, circa 1907.Fine, yellow gold-filled, keyless, Western Pacific Railroad watch.

C. Three-piece, "bassine et filets", screw back and bezel, back with straight line engine-turning, reeded band. D. White enamel, double sunk with bold Arabic numerals, outer minute ring with 5-minute red Arabic markers, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "Railway Spade" hands. M. 18 size, nickel, full plate, lever-set, damascened, 21 jewels, the top ones in screwed gold settings, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with gold screws adjusted to heat, cold, isochronismand 6 positions, blued steel Breguet balance spring, Reed's patented whiplash micrometric regulator, double roller, lever-set.Signed on dial, case and movement.Diam. 52 mm.