The Art of American Horology Part ll,...

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

LOT 684

Gold-Washed Bunn SpecialIllinois Watch Co., Springfield, Illinois, No.1763836, 6th Model, "Bunn Special", circa 1905.Fine, rose gold-filled, Railroad watch.

C. Three-piece, "bassine", by Philadelphia Watch Case Co.", screw back and bezel, polished, back with partial floral and foliate decoration and a flying bird. D. White enamel, double sunk with painted bold Arabic numerals, outer minute ring with 5-minute red Arabic markers, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "Spade" hands.M. 18 size, nickel, gold-washed, full plate, lever-set, elaborately da-mascened, 21 jewels, the top ones in screwed gold settings, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with gold screws adjusted to temperatures and 6 positions, blued steel Breguet balance spring, Reed's patented whiplash micrometric regulator.Signed on dial and movement.Diam. 53 mm.