391,000 HKD
Le Roy & Son, Watchmaker to the Queen, 57 New Bond Street, London, No. 2357, circa 1880. Very fine and rare, 18 ct. gold, minute repeating, moon phase, astronomical keyless Grande and Petite sonnerie, clock-watch with perpetual calendar. Four body, massive, bassine et filets, polished. Gold cuvette. White enamel with Roman numerals, subsidiary dials for the months of the leap-year cycle, the date, the days of the week and the subsidiary seconds with inner moon phase and age aperture. Blued steel spade hands. Part English and Swiss, gilt brass, three quarter plate, double train with differential winding, 29 jewels, English lateral lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, blued steel balance spring with terminal curve. Striking and repeating on gongs with boit in the band. Quarters/Hours and quarters, Strike/silent, optional levers on the border of the bezel. Signed on the back plate. In very good condition. Diam. 61 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1992-05-24
