$2,375
HAMILTON OTIS REVERSIBLE GOLD PLATED Hamilton Watch Co. , Lancaster, PA, Otis. Made in the 1950s. Fine, rectangular 14K gold-plated reversible wristwatch. Five-body, polished, reeded bezel. Satine silver with applied yellow gold stylized Arabic numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds dial. Yellow gold alpha hands. 8’’’ tonneau, rhodium-plated, fausses côtes decoration, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial, case, and movement signed. DIM. 24 x 39 mm. Notes Hamilton Watch Company produced the Otis for only several years in the late 1930s and early 1940s until the company was supposedly forced to end production after a patent infringement claim by Jaeger-LeCoultre
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-04-10
