Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces.

Hong Kong, Oct 27, 2018

LOT 380

JULIEN LE ROY DECORATIVE WATCH WITH ONE HOROLOGICAL COMPLICATION AND A CHATELAINE, 20K YELLOW GOLD

HKD 140,000 - 230,000

CHF 17,100 - 28,450 / USD 17,500 - 29,200

Sold: HKD 162,500

20K yellow gold, enamel and diamonds, open-face, key-winding, round-shaped, pocket watch with one horological complication: Quarter-repeater à tac on one bell (activated by depressing the pendant) Case-back polychrome enamelled with a vase of flowers; chatelaine polychrome enamelled with flowers.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3-8

Good

Slightly scratched
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Brand Julien Le Roy

Year circa 1760

Movement No. 4 064

Caliber 16'' gilded brass, with fusee and chain, verge escapement, monometallic balance and blued steel flat hairspring

Dimensions Ø 46 mm.

Signature movement

Accessories contemporary 20K yellow gold and enamel chatelaine with its breloques

Notes

Apocryphal signature Very fine example of a probably Genevan watch, bearing the apocryphal signature of one of the most famous Parisian watchmakers of the time. On the chatelaine is punched several French stamps of metal control: "hache, le fer à droite" (ax, with its iron on the right side) -> old gold check stamp (used between 1798 and 1819); "E T" in a horizontal rectangular stamp -> old gold check stamp, especially used for goods at auction