$2,530
To be Sold Without Reserve Bailey, Banks & Biddle, Philadelphia, No. 61577, “Special”. Made in the 1880s. Very fine, hunting-cased, keyless, 18K pink gold pocket watch. Four-body, "bassine et filets", solid, engine-turned, hinged cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, sunk subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "spade" hands. Cal. 18’’’, nickel, "fausses côtes" decoration, 21 jewels, counterpoised straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, “wolfs-teeth” winding wheels. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 50 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-09-28