2,000 CHF
LEPINE WATCH & CHATELAINE GOLD & ENAMEL Lepine A Paris. Made circa 1770. Fine and rare, gold and enamel pendant watch with a gilt-metal chatelaine with two hardstone-set keys and two seals. Two-body, "Louis XV", beaded bezel, the back decorated with a band of translucent green guilloche enamel, the center and border decorated with chased gold foliage set with seed pearls and cabochon green stones, outer border to match the bezel. White enamel, radial Arabic numerals, outer minute track with five-minute Arabic numerals. Gold Louis XV hands. 33 mm. hinged, frosted gilt full plate with conical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement with micrometric potence adjustment, three-arm brass balance with blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator with silver scale, continental-type foliate pierced cock, polished steel endplate. Notes Dial and movement signed. DIAM. 42 mm. JEAN ANTOINE LÉPINE (1720-1814) was born on 18 November 1720 at Challex, a small village a few kilometers north of Geneva. After having worked for some time at the establishment of Decrose, in the Grand Saconnex, also in the Geneva suburbs. He arrived in Paris in 1744. A workman for André Charles Caron, "Horloger du Roi" and father of Beaumarchais. He married his employer's daughter in 1756 and was received Master in 1765 He was named "Horloger du Roi" (King's Clockmaker) circa 1765. In 1766 he succeeded Caron, and appears on the list of Paris clockmakers of that year as: Jean-Antoine Lépine, Hg
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2015-03-15
