3,540 CHF
“The Lovers” Jn. Le Roy, A Paris, Swiss. Made circa 1760. Fine and rare, gold and painted on enamel pocket watch with double date calendar. Two-body, “Louis XV”, the back painted with a courting scene in the countryside within a foliate border, the inside painted with a bouquet of flowers, bezel painted with continuous landscape, the inside bezel with flowers. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute ring with five-minute Arabic numerals, inner day of the week scale and outer date scale, winding aperture between 3 and 4 o’clock. Gold “beetle and poker” hour and minute hands, blued steel calendar hands. 35 mm., hinged, gilt brass full-plate with pentagonal baluster pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, plain brass threearm balance, flat balance-spring, pierced and chased continental cock, polished steel endplate, silver regulation disc. Movement signed. Diam. 48 mm. To be sold without reserve
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-05-14