12,075 CHF
Lépine, Horloger du Roy à Paris, No. I 327 I, circa 1766. Fine and rare 18 ct. gold and enamel watch with the early typical Lepine calibre. Double body, Louis XVI with concealed hinge, fixed bezel, the enamel back painted with a child in a landscape, outer blue champleve enamelled line border decorated with white dots. Gilt brass cuvette. White enamel with Roman numerals and outer Arabic minute ring, gold Louis XV hands. Gilt brass, typical Lepine calibre with free-standing barrel, virgule escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring. Signed on the dial and the cuvette. In very good condition. Diam. 40 mm. Notes This watch is described and illustrated in T. P. Camerer Cuss: The Camerer Cuss Book of Antique Watches, Antique Collector's Club, 1976, pp. 132- 133. h1 his book: jean Antoine Lépine Horloger (pp. 188- 189, fig. 10-1, 10-2, 10-18, 10-51, 10-75), Adolphe Chapiro describes this watch as a good early example of the Lepine calibre without repeating mechanism. The number is not engraved on the cuvette but punched on the case and beneath the dial on the front plate . The dial, still with Roman numerals with outer Arabic minute ring does not bear the phrase: "Horloger du Roi" which is however engraved on the cuvette. According to
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1993-11-14
