69,000 HKD
Julien Le Roy a Paris, No. 2629, with Paris hallmarks for 1752. Very fine 18K gold, quarter dumb repeating watch. Notes The inscription: Invente par Julien Le Roy en 1740, refers to the invention called a bate levee (see Ch. ALLIX and G. BRUSH, Antiquarian Horology, June 1972, of which an off-print copy is supplied with the watch).
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1999-06-07