$2,360
Quarter-Repeater Le Roy & Fils, Hgers de la Marine, Palais-Royal, 13 & 15, Galie Montpensier, Paris, 57, New Bond Street, London, No. 55589. Made circa 1880. Very fine, 18K gold, quarter-repeating, keyless pocket watch. Four-body, “bassine”, polished, front cover with monogram. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. 18.5’’’, frosted gilt, 29 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Cuvette signed. Case numbered. Diam. 51 mm. Property of Various Owners
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-12-05
