9,200 CHF
Le Roy & Fils, Horlogers de la Marine, Palais-Royal, 13 & 15, Gallerie Montpensier, Paris, 211 Regent Street, London, No. 54198, circa 1890. Fine 18K gold keyless minute-repeating watch in original fitted box. Four-body, "bassine et filets", engine-turned back with engraved initials, gold hinged cuvette. White enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute track with five-minute Arabic markers, subsidiary sunk seconds. Gold "spade" hands. 43 mm., frosted gilt, 31 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with Breguet balance spring, wolf-tooth winding wheels, repeating on gongs through activating slide in the band.Signed on the cuvette.Diam. 51 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-06-14
