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

LOT 678

Illinois Watch Co., Springfield, No. 3533979, Model 6, Grade 89, circa 1918.Fine, yellow gold-filled, "C & O Special", Railroad Inspector W.L. Fredeking, Hinton, W.VA. watch.

C. Three-piece, "bassine", screw back and bezel, by Wadsworth, polished. D. White enamel, double-sunk with painted oversized Arabic numerals, outer minute ring with 5-minute red Arabic markers, subsidiary sunk seconds. "Spade" blued steel hands. M. 18 size, nickel, full plate, two-tone, damascened in crosshatched pattern and partially gold-washed, 17 jewels, the top ones in screwed settings, lateral lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, adjusted, blued steel Breguet balance-sprig, Reed's patented whiplash micrometric regulator. Signed on the movement, movement also signed by "C & O", dial by the Inspector.Diam. 54 mm.