18,400 CHF
Attributed to Le Roy, Au Palais Royale, Paris, No. 88, circa 1810.Very fine and rare 18K gold and enamel, set with pearls and diamonds hunting cased "médaillon à tact" lady's pendant watch. Three-body, "Empire", both covers with translucent Imperial blue enamel over sunburst engine turning, hinged front, revolving back fixed with diamond-set à tact hand, reeded bezels, fluted band, 12 pearls set in fluted gold wire frames for touch hour pieces, alternating with smaller ones for half-hours, gilded detachable cuvette with aperture for dial, winding, and setting. Small eccentric white enamel, Breguet numerals, outer minute divisions. Blued steel index hands. Notes Designed by Breguet, few examples of this type of a watch were made by Breguet. 'Breguet classified his souscription calibers as 'petite', 'moyenne' and 'grande'. Out of about 915 souscription type watches that Breguet made, only about 35 'petites' are known to exist. They were the most expensive, averaging about SFr. 1700. Breguet introduced them in the spring of 1799. Le Roy Hologer de S:A:I et R Madame à Paris, is also famous for producing this type of pendant watch using similar Breguet soucription calibers. See Antiquorum catalogue "L'art de L'horologerie en France du XVe au XXe siècle" Geneva 14 November, 1993, Lot 131, 132, 133.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-04-12
