$2,300
Elgin National Watch Co. , U.S.A., Model 8, No. 15465653, circa 1910.Fine, 14K multicolored gold, set with a diamond, keyless hunting-cased watch. four-body, scallop edge, both covers very elaborately decorated with applied rose and green gold foliate pattern, alternating with flinque, rocailles and a rosette set with a diamond, vermicelli edges, gold hinged cuvette. white enamel, double sunk, Arabic numerals, outer minute ring with five-minute red Arabic markers, sunk subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "Double Swell Spade" hands. 16 size, nickel, three-finger bridge, damascened, 17 jewels, the top ones in gold settings, adjusted, god wheel train, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with gold screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, Moseley & Hunter micrometric regulator.Signed on the dial and movement. Diam. 51.5 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-11-28
