27,500 HKD
Le Roy & Fils - Small Quarter-Repeater L. Leroy & Cie, Hgers de la Marine, 13 & 15 Palais-Royal, Paris, 57 New Bond Street, London, No. 55886. Made circa 1890. Fine and rare, small, quarter-repeating, keyless, rose gold lady’s pendant watch. Four-body, bassine, polished, the back cover with engraved monogram “LB”, the interior engraved “Mlle L. Barre”. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with black radial Arabic numerals, red 12, outer minute track and Arabic five-minute numerals, red 60. Gold spade hands. 14’’’, rhodium-plated, matte gilt, 23 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs with two polished steel hammers. Dial and cuvette signed. Diam. 39 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-10-09
