10,350 CHF
The Temptation. Lepaute a Paris, No. 191, circa 1775.Very fine and rare small 20 ct. gold and enamel quarter repeating lady's pendant watch. 23.4 mm o, hinged, gilt brass full plate, cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge esapement, plain three-arm brass balance with blued-steel flat balance spring, continental cock pierced and engraved, rack and pinion regulator with silver plate, repeating on bell by depressing the pendant.Signed on the movement.Diam. 30 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, pages 152-153. Notes Lepaute.One of most eminent families of Paris watch and clockmakers from the end of the 18th century. Jean André Lepaute (born 1720), in 1749 married Nicole Reine Etable de la Brière, a very remarkable woman who was a well known scholar, elected to the Académie des Sciences of Beziers in 1761. In 1760 he was joined by his brother, Jean Baptiste (born 1727), and in 1763 by his two nephews Pierre Henry and Pierre Bazile Lepaute. The company was chosen to build a clock with equation of time for the City Hal as well as for Les Invalides in Paris, and a member of the family, became Clockmaker to the Emperor Napoléon, another to Louis Philippe and Napoléon III.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-03-31
