Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, May 10, 2020

LOT 100

Le Roy - Large pocket watch, quarter-repeater; 20K yellow gold

HKD 25,000 - 30,000

USD 3,300 - 3,900 / EUR 3,000 - 3,600 / CHF 3,300 - 3,900

20K yellow gold, open face, key-winding, round-shaped, pocket watch, with gold guilloché (engine-turned) dial and one horological complication: • Quarter-repeater on two steel square gongs (activated by depressing the pendant). Case-back guilloché (engine-turned). Inside case back engraved in taille-douce (fine cut) “Fanny H. Caulfield / Montre de son père”. 23’’’, gilded brass, with going barrel, cylinder escapement, monometallic balance (gilded brass) and blued steel flat hairspring, upper pivot with diamond end-stone and polished steel index regulator.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3 *
Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Brand Le Roy, Paris

Model “Horloger de S. A. I. et R. Madame”

Year circa 1806-1809

Movement No. 2 636

Case No. 23 (by “L”, Paris)

Material 20K yellow gold

Diameter 56.6 mm.

Caliber 23’’’, cylinder escapement

Signature dial and cuvette (dome)

Notes

Le Roy, Charles (1765-1839), Paris
Basile-Charles Le Roy (1765-1839), was the founder of the Le Roy company in 1785 in Paris (13-15 Galerie Montpensier, Palais-Royal).
He was appointed circa 1806 ‘‘Horloger de S. A. I. & R., Madame, Mère de l’Empereur et Roi’’ (Clockmaker of His Imperial and Royal Highness Madame, Mother of the Emperor and King), Lætitia Bonaparte (1750-1836), mother of Napoléon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of the French (1804-1814 and 1815).
Circa 1810, he became “Horloger de S. M. le Roi de Westphalie” (Clockmaker of His Majesty the King of Westphalia), Jérôme Bonaparte (1784-1860), King of Westphalia (1807-1813), youngest brother of Napoléon Ist.

Biography

Caulfield, Fanny H., London

Fanny H. Caulfield was the eldest daughter of the late St. George Caulfield, esq. She married, in July 1827, at Col. Cuff’s, Whitehall-place, London, Fred. Hamilton Cornewall, esq., eldest son of the bishop of Worcester.