Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 25, 2012

LOT 204

LEROY & FILS PERPETUAL CALENDAR LeRoy & Fils, Pals Royal Gie Montpensier 13-15, Paris, No. 7535. Made circa 1880. Extremely fine, impressive and rare, gilt-brass and enamel, 8-day going pendulum shelf clock with perpetual calendar, moon phases, hour and half-hour striking and visible anchor escapement with independent seconds.

C. Rectangular, multi-piece, gilt-brass pillars, moulded fl at top and base, four sides glazed with bevelled glass, hinged front and back doors. D. Two-piece, white enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions, recessed center with apertures for winding, visible anchor independent seconds escapement with jeweled pallets, regulation arbour above 12. Blued steel Breguet hands. Dial below for the perpetual calendar, three-piece white and painted on enamel, outer ring for the months concentric with days left in the year beginning on the summer solstice, the center with subsidiary dial for the date and days of the week and age of the moon, the reverse of the calendar movement with leap year indication. Blued steel tulip hands, gilt brass border with fi nely detailed and engraved fl oral and foliage decoration. M. A: Square plates, 12 cm, brass, spring barrels for the going and striking trains, anchor escapement with independent seconds, setting knob for the time, striking the hours and half-hours on a bell. B. Calendar mechanism geared to the top time mechanism, circular, 9 cm, leap year indication, setting knobs for the moon phase, day, date and month. Dim. 46 x 27 x 19.5 cm. Property from the Saft Collection