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

LOT 689

Illinois Watch Co., Springfield, Illinois, No. 1944139, 6th Model, "Bunn Special", circa 1907.Fine, nickel, 24-jewel Railroad watch.

C. Three-body, polished, display, glazed on both sides. D. White enamel, double sunk with bold Arabic numerals, outer minute ring with 5-minute red Arabic markers, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "Spade" hands. M. 18 size, nickel, full plate, lever-set, damascened, 24 jewels in screwed gold settings, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with gold screws adjusted to temperature, isochronism and 6 positions, blued steel Breguet balance spring, Reed's patented whiplasmicrometric regulator, lever-set.Signed on dial and movement.Diam. 54 mm.