4,750 CHF
LeRoy & Fils Enamel Flowers Le Roy & Fils, Hgers du Roi, à Paris, No. 17101. Made circa 1830. Fine, 18K gold and champleve enamel pocket watch with a gold and enamel ratchet key. Four-body, the bezel decorated with red and white champlevé enamel half flowers on a black enamel ground, the back cover with polychrome champlevé enamel flowers and foliage and a butterfly on a black enamel ground, outer border to match the bezel. Hinged gold cuvette. Silver, engine-turned with radial Roman numerals, outer dot minute divisions. Blued steel Breguet hands. 15’’’, matte gilt, Lepine caliber, jeweled cylinder escapement, plain three-arm gilt balance, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator. Dial and cuvette signed. Diam. 40 mm. Property of a French Gentleman
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-05-15
