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Hôtel Plaza Athénée - Le Trianon, Sep 28, 2005

LOT 141

To be Sold Without Reserve, Geneva, No. 105762, case No. 67570. Made in the early 1900s. Very fine, keyless, 14K pink gold pocket watch.

C. Four-body, "bassine", solid, polished, bezel and back rim with engine-turned decoration, gold hinged cuvette. D. Ivory-colored with painted blue Arabic numerals, outer gold dot minute divisions, subsidiary sunk seconds dial. Pink gold "Louis XVI" hands. M. Cal. 18 1⁄2''', First Quality Swiss, rhodium-plated, ?perlage? decoration, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, ?swan-neck? micrometer regulator. Dial signed, case signed: ?AWC Co.?, movement signed: ?Morck & Herberger, Warren Pa.? Diam. 51 mm. Thickness 15 mm.