22,500 CHF
Le Roy - Ordre National De La Légion D'honneur - Quarter Repeating Watch made for Nicolas Oudinot, 1st Comte Oudinot, 1st Duc de Reggio, Marshal of France (1767-1847) Le Roy a Paris, No. 5586. Made circa 1810. Very fine and extremely rare, quarter-repeating, 18K gold and enamel pocket watch with visible balance cock in the form of the Légion d’Honneur insignia. Three-body, Empire, polished bezels, reeded band, glazed back displaying the balance cock pierced and enameled with the insignia of the Légion d’Honneur. Hinged gold cuvette with sunray engine-turning, aperture for the cock and engraved oval cartouche below with the initials AO. White enamel with Breguet numerals, outer minute divisions. Blued steel Breguet hands. 40 mm., matte gilt, full plate, fuse and chain, verge escapement, three-arm brass balance, flat balance spring, finely pierced, chased and enameled cock in the form of the insignia of the Légion d’Honneur, silvered regulation scale with blued steel hand, repeating on gongs activated by depressing the pendant. Movement signed. Diam. 55 mm. Notes Nicolas Oudinot (1767-1847) One of the most distinguished French soldiers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was Masséna’s right-hand man throughout the Swiss campaign of 1799, first as a General of Division, then as Chief of Staff. He won extraordinary distinction at the Battle of Zürich and so distinguished himself at the Battle of Monzambano that Napoleon presented him with a Sword of Honor. He was
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-05-15
