DESCRIPTION:
APW - Waltham, Samuel Curtis, serial #536, 15J, 17S, coin silver OF original case with eagle hallmark and anchor hallmark, white enamel dial, KWKS, gilt mvt, s#536 with very nearly matched case s#535. An excellent original example of this historically important early watch by Waltham's predecessor the Boston Watch Company, the total production of the Samuel Curtis was somewhere between 800 and 900 made. The combination of eagle and anchor hallmarks is characteristic to early Boston Watch Co. factory cases made in-house by casemaker Cabel Westcott as discussed in Wesley R. Hauptman's excellent "The Boston Watch Company" article in the October 1963 edition of the NAWCC Bulletin.
CONDITION:
Mvt: Running after a small twist to start, excellent cosmetic mvt condition overall, good gilt tone, some light fingerprint etching at portions of main plate perimeter, few micro-fine scratches and mild small haze spots; dial with hl from center to bottom, light hl from edge at 12 extending down to left of center group of small perimeter hls between 1:30 and 3, small edge chipping under bezel between 8 and 9; excellent hands, hour and minute with some mild vertical bends; case shows light wear, an attractive patina, few nicks to rear perimeter with one being an impression caused by bow, cuvette with denting, cuvette with some play at its hinge and opening/closing loosely; bow pivots freely and is thinned at top; glass crystal with small internal edge chip at 8.
ESTIMATE:
$3000
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$5000
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