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

LOT 680

Illinois Watch Co., Springfield, Illinois, No. 4626001, "Sangamo Special" Grade, produced circa 1924.Fine, white gold-filled, 23-jewel Railroad watch.

C. Three-piece by "Wadsworth", screw back and bezel with engine-turned pattern on borders. D. Double-sunk white enamel with bold Arabic numerals, outer 60-minute ring with red and black Arabic markers, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "Diamond" hands. M. 17 size, nickel, 3/4 split plate with mocked bridges, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 23 jewels, the top ones in screwed raised gold settings, gold wheel train, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with gold screws, adjsted to temperatures and 6 positions, blued steel Breguet balance spring, Reed's patented whiplash micrometric regulator, motor barrel, lever-set.Signed on dial, case and movement.Diam. 51 mm.