4,750 CHF
LE ROY & FILS, QUARTER REPEATING WATCH Le Roy & Fils, Hgers de la Marine, Palais-Royal, 13 & 15 GALie Montpensier, Paris, 211 Regent Street, London, No. 54033, the case and dial attributed to François-Désiré Froment- Meurice, the movement ebauche by B. Poitevin, Geneva. Made circa 1860. Very fine and rare, quarter-repeating, yellow gold and silver, keyless pocket watch. Four-body, bassine, yellow gold band and pendant with engraved scroll decoration, the silver covers deeply cast and fi nely chased with foliate scrolls the front cover with an applied yellow gold monogram “CB”, the back centered by a grotesque mask, winding crown in the form of an inverted flower, trefoil bow. Hinged yellow gold cuvette. Solid silver with radial gothic Roman numerals, outer minute track, the center with engraved stylized foliate scrolls. Blued steel halberd hands. 18’’’, matte gilt, 19 jewels, wolf’s tooth winding, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Cuvette signed Le Roy & Fils, dial plate punched B. Pvin. Diam. 48 mm. Notes François-Désiré Froment-Meurice Was amongst the most renowned silversmiths of mid-nineteenth century Paris. He was a historicist whose work encompassed the Renaissance, medieval and Islamic styles, typically with a profusion of ornament.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-11-13
