The Art of American Horology Part ll,...

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

LOT 695

Rockford Watch Co., Rockford, Illinois, No. 880100, Model 7, circa 1911.Fine and rare, keyless Butterfield Railway, Sault Ste. Marie watch.

C. Three-piece, "bassine" by Philadelphia Watch Case Co.", screw back and bezel, back decorated with different types of engine turning, engraving and vermicelli scrolling, bezel with vermicelli scrolling. D. White enamel, double sunk, Roman numerals, outer minute track with 5-minute red Arabic markers, inner 24-hour (13 to 24) track, sunk subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "Double Swell Spade" hands. M. 18 size, nickel, gold washed, damascened in two-tone parallel wavy pattern, 17 jewels, straightine calibrated lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Bre-guet balance spring, special patented micrometric regulator, safety pinion.Signed on the movement, dial signed "Butterfield Railway Watch, Sault Ste Marie".Diam. 54mm.