Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 27, 2011

LOT 312

Le Roy ? In the Tavern Julien Le Roy, A Paris. Made circa 1750. 20K gold and painted on enamel pocket watch.

C. Two-body, ?Louis XV?, chased with asymmetrical scrolls, the bezel decorated with painted on enamel flowers, the back decorated with a painted on enamel scene of the interior of a tavern. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five minute numerals. Gold Louis XV hands. M. 37 mm., gilt brass, full-plate, pentagonal baluster pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, micrometric potence adjustment, plain three-arm steel balance, flat balance spring, pierced and engraved continental balance cock, polished steel endplate, silver regulation dial. Movement signed. Diam. 44 mm.