12,075 CHF
"Julien Le Roy", a Paris, No. 8559, circa 1760. Fine 18K gold and painted on enamel, dia-mond- set, à toc and à tact, quarter-repeating watch. Two-body, Louis XV, by "TPA", back painted with ascene depicting two men and a drunken woman, wineoverflowing from her glass, while the younger man tries topour more wine into her glass and the older man tries to stop him,front bezel decorated with enamel flowers, diamond-set thumb pieces. White enamel, radial Roman nume-rals,outer minute divisions with five-minute Arabic markers, winding aperture at 12 o’clock. Diamond-setpierced elaborate hands. 33 mm, hinged, frosted gilt full-plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, vergeescapement brass balance with flat balance spring, continental cock, repeating on gongs by depressing the pen-dant,gilt brass dust cap.Signed on dial and movement.Diam. 47 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-04-24
