4,720 CHF
“Grapes for the Lovers” J(u)l(ie)n Le Roy, A Paris. Swiss made circa 1750. Fine, 18K gold and painted on enamel pocket watch. Two-body, “Louis XV”, the back painted with a courting scene in the countryside, the interior painted with a country house, bezel painted with continuous landscape, inside of the bezel with flowers. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with five-minute Arabic numerals, winding aperture at 4 o’clock. Diamond-set hands. 37 mm, hinged, gilt brass full plate with pentagonal baluster pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, micrometric potence adjustment, plain steel three-arm balance, flat balance spring, continental cock, silver regulation disc. Movement signed. Diam. 46 mm. To be sold without reserve
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-10-15
