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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Nov 14, 1993
LOT 105
Lépine, Horloger du Roy à Paris, No. I 327 I, circa 1766. Fine and rare 18 ct. gold and enamel watch with the early typical Lepine calibre.
CHF 10,000 - 12,000
Sold: CHF 12,075
C. Double body, Louis XVI with concealed hinge, fixed bezel, the enamel back painted with a child in a landscape, outer blue champleve enamelled line border decorated with white dots. Gilt brass cuvette. D. White enamel with Roman numerals and outer Arabic minute ring, gold Louis XV hands. M. Gilt brass, typical Lepine calibre with free-standing barrel, virgule escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring. Signed on the dial and the cuvette. In very good condition. Diam. 40 mm.
Notes
This watch is described and illustrated in T. P.
Camerer Cuss: The Camerer Cuss Book of Antique
Watches, Antique Collector's Club, 1976, pp. 132-
133.
h1 his book: jean Antoine Lépine Horloger (pp. 188-
189, fig. 10-1, 10-2, 10-18, 10-51, 10-75), Adolphe
Chapiro describes this watch as a good early
example of the Lepine calibre without repeating
mechanism. The number is not engraved on the
cuvette but punched on the case and beneath the
dial on the front plate . The dial, still with Roman
numerals with outer Arabic minute ring does not
bear the phrase: "Horloger du Roi" which is
however engraved on the cuvette. According to