Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 15, 2015

LOT 75

LE ROY QUARTER-REPEATER ENAMEL, PEARL & YELLOW GOLD Julien Le Roy à Paris, No. 907. Made for the Islamic market, circa 1800. Very fine and rare, gold, quarter-repeating, painted on enamel and pearl-set pocket watch with outer gilt-brass and shagreen protecting case.

Two-body, bassine, the back with a finely painted on enamel bouquet of flowers on a light blue ground, aperture for the shuttered winding, graduated pearl-set border, translucent red, white and pale green enamel border, the bezel and band very finely pierced and decorated with engraved gold foliage and translucent red flowers and blue translucent enamel scrolls, the bezel edge set with seed pearls. Gilt-brass dust cover. White enamel secured by a single screw, radial Islamic numerals, outer minute divisions and five-minute Islamic numerals. Blued steel Breguet hands. 31 mm. gilt brass full plate, fusee and chain, verge escapement, steel three-arm balance, flat balance spring, continental cock pierced and engraved with foliage, polished steel endplate, rack and pinion regulator with silver plate with Islamic numerals, repeating on a bell in the back of the case.