2,500 CHF
LE ROY & FILS ENAMEL FLOWERS Le Roy & Fils, Hgers du Roi, à Paris, No. 17101. Made circa 1830. Fine, 18K gold and champleve enamel pocket watch with a gold and enamel ratchet key. Four-body, the bezel decorated with red and white champlevé enamel half fl owers on a black enamel ground, the back cover with polychrome champlevé enamel fl owers and foliage and a butterfl y on a black enamel ground, outer border to match the bezel. Hinged gold cuvette. Silver, engine-turned with radial Roman numerals, outer dot minute divisions. Blued steel Breguet hands. 15’’’, matte gilt, Lepine caliber, jeweled cylinder escapement, plain three-arm gilt balance, blued steel fl at balance spring, index regulator. Dial and cuvette signed. Diam. 40 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-11-13
