Sold for:
$18,000
$18,000
circa 1890, yellow gold, openfaced minute repeating watch, highly jeweled gilt lever movement, slide repeat, gold cuvette, enamel dial with roman numerals and subsidiary seconds, No. 56240, the polished case back polychrome-enameled with the Roosevelt family arms and motto, "Qui Plantavit Curabit," translated from the Latin: "Anyone who bothers to plant something will take care of it." Diameter 55.00 cm.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2006-12-11
