Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, Oct 15, 2006

LOT 206

?Country Flowers? J(u)l(ie)n Le Roy, A Paris, No. 2938. Swiss made circa 1750. Fine, 18K gold and painted on enamel pocket watch.

C. Two-body, ?Louis XV?, the back painted with a ribbon-tied bouquet of flowers, the interior painted with a small bouquet of roses and violets, bezel painted with flowers. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with five-minute Arabic numerals, winding aperture at 4 o?clock. Gold ?Louis XV? hands. M. 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. 48 mm.