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CHARLES FASOLDT, ALBANY, NY. A RARE 18K GOLD HUNTER CASED WATCH WITH CO-AXIAL DOUBLE WHEEL ESCAPEMENT1870's
3 June 2021, 13:00 EDT
New YorkSold for US$15,300 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistCHARLES FASOLDT, ALBANY, NY. A RARE 18K GOLD HUNTER CASED WATCH WITH CO-AXIAL DOUBLE WHEEL ESCAPEMENT
Date: 1870's
Movement: Nickel bridge pattern jeweled to the center with shaped gold settings, Fasoldt's double wheel escapement, bi metallic balance, overcoiled spring, Fasoldt's gold precision regulator, stem wound, key set, no. 496
Dial: Signed white enamel, outer minute ring, roman chapters, subsidiary seconds, blued hands
Case: Engine turned, glazed cuvette, casemaker's punch EH for E. Humbert, NY
Size: 55mm
Movement: Nickel bridge pattern jeweled to the center with shaped gold settings, Fasoldt's double wheel escapement, bi metallic balance, overcoiled spring, Fasoldt's gold precision regulator, stem wound, key set, no. 496
Dial: Signed white enamel, outer minute ring, roman chapters, subsidiary seconds, blued hands
Case: Engine turned, glazed cuvette, casemaker's punch EH for E. Humbert, NY
Size: 55mm
Footnotes
Provenance
Time Museum Inventory No. 231
Literature
Britten, F.J. Old Clocks, Watches and Their Makers. London, Ninth Edition, 1982, p. 243, pl. 156
Hoke, Donald R. The Time Museum Catalogue of American Pocket Watches. Rockford, 1991, p. 289, cat. no. 315