1,875 CHF
LE ROY & FILS - QUARTER-REPEATER Le Roy & Fils, Hgers de la Marine, Palais-Royal, 13 & 15 Gal. ie Montpensier, Paris, No. 53070. Made circa 1880. Fine and rare, quarter-repeating, keyless, 18K gold pocket watch. Four-body, bassine et filets, polished, engine-turned back cover with engraved monogram "HJC", flat band. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with black radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Gold spade hands. 19''', matte gilt, 27 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Cuvette signed. Notes DIAM. 49 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2015-05-10
