25,000 CHF
LE ROY - THE ROCOCO GARDEN Julien Le Roy à Paris, No. 569. Made in Friedberg, circa 1740. Very fine and rare, large, repoussé silver, four-train coach watch with hour and quarter striking and repeating, date and alarm. Two-body, very fi nely pierced, chased and engraved with asymmetric scrollwork, bezel decorated to match, the back with a scene of courting couples in a rococo garden, strike/silent lever in the dial plate, pendant with loose barrel and ring. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic fi ve minute numerals, date aperture above 6, inner enamel alarm disc with Arabic numerals and half and quarter hour markers. Fine pierced gilt Louis XV hands. 83 mm., gilt, full-plate, rectangular pillars with applied silver foliate frets, fusee with chain, foliate engraved spring barrels for the striking, repeating and alarm trains, polished steel hammers, verge escapement, three-arm brass balance, blued steel fl at balance-spring, very fi nely pierced, chased and engraved backplate furniture, polished steel endplate, calibrated silver regulator disc with radial Roman numerals, trip quarter repeating, striking and alarm on a bell in the back of the case, with independent trains for quarters and hours, a lever for silence/strike. Movement signed. Diam. 115 mm. Notes This watch, an very fi ne example of its type, shows many of the characteristics of those watches made in Friedberg for other makers across Europe. Friedberg watchmakers specialized i
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-05-13
