Sale 3401
New York
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9 December 2014
Price realised
USD 3,750
Estimate
This lot is offered without a reserve
Comor. An 18k Gold Openface Keyless Lever Pocket Watch Signed Comor, Circa 1978 Cal. L787/4 gilt-finished lever movement, 17 jewels, monometallic balance, silvered guilloché dial, eccentric polished chapter ring calibrated for 60 minutes, Arabic quarter numerals, subsidiary seconds, blued steel moon-style hands, circular engine-turned case, and rims, snap on back, movement signed 56mm diam.
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Accompanied by a blue leather Comor Metropolitan Museum of Art fitted presentation box.
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