The Art of American Horology Part ll,...

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

LOT 681

Electric RailroadIllinois Watch Co., Springfield, Illinois, No. 1907079, Model 4, Grade 185, Standard, circa 1907.Fine, 14K rose gold-filled, hunting-cased, Electric Railroad watch.

C. Four-body, "bassine" by "Dueber", hinged covers, elaborately decorated with floral and foliate pattern, front with a blank crest.D. White enamel, double-sunk with Arabic numerals, outer minute ring with 5-minute red Arabic markers, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "Spade" hands. M. 16 size, nickel, 3/4 split plate with mocked bridges, damascened and partially gold-washed, 17 jewels, adjusted, the top ones in screwed settings, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, Reed's patented whiplash micrometric regulator, lever-set.Signed on dial and movement.Diam. 50 mm.