The Art of American Horology Part ll,...

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

LOT 696

Wathier's Railway WatchRockford Watch Co., Rockford Ill., No. 304155, Model 8, made for J.P. Wathier, Chicago, circa 1891.Fine, gold-filled, keyless watch with an unusual case.

C. Three-body, "bassine et filets", triple-hinged by "C.W.C. Co.", decorated with floral and foliate pattern on the covers, concave bezels with tear-drop repeated pattern alternating with vermicelli.D. White enamel, double-sunk with painted Arabic numerals, outer minute track with 5-minute red Arabic markers, sunk subsidiary seconds. Blued steel hands. M. 18 size, nickel, gold-washed, full plate, damascened, 15 jewels, adjusted, straight line lever escape-ment, cut-bimetallic compensation balance blued steel Breguet balance spring, micrometer regulator.Signed on the dial and movement by the retailer.Diam. 55 mm.