The Sandberg Watch Collection

Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Mar 31, 2001

LOT 306

Le Roy à Paris, No 1882, circa 1815.Fine 18 ct. gold two-train watch with hour-striking music and quarter repeater.

C. Four-body, 'Empire', polished back, reeded bezels and band, gilt hinged cuvette. D. Gold, engine-turned and engraved, white enamel cartouches, Breguet numerals, outer enamel minute ring. M. 50 mm o, gilt brass bridge calibre, free-standing barrel, cylinder escapement, three-arm gold balance, flat balance spring, music by a pinned cylinder with a comb of 12 sections of three tuned teeth each, playing on demand by a slide at 4 o'clock, repeating on a gong by depressing the pendant, a slide at 1o'clock to block the pendant.Signed on the cuvette, case stamped 'I·E' in lozenge.Diam. 57 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, pages 198-199.