6,490 CHF
“Vanity” Julien Le Roy a Paris, No. 3159. Made circa 1750. Fine, 18K gold, painted on enamel and diamond-set, dumb quarter-repeating pocket watch with à tact option. Two-body, "Louis XV", chased bezel decorated with enamel flowers, the back decorated with a scene of a gentleman in his boudoir attended by two ladies, border decorated to match the bezel, thumb-piece set with an old-cut diamond. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five minute numerals, winding aperture at 2 o’clock, chased foliate dial plate. Rose diamond-set hour hand. 38 mm., hinged gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement with plain steel three-arm balance, flat balance spring, pierced and foliate chased continental type balance cock with polished steel end-piece, silver regulation dial, repeating on the case activated by depressing the pendant. Movement signed. Diam. 47 mm. To be sold without reserve
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-10-15
