Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 13, 2012

LOT 208

Le Roy & Fils, Horlogers de la Marine, Palais Royal, 13 & 15 Galerie Montpensier, Paris, 211 Regent Street, London, No. 53384. Made circa 1900. Fine, 18K two-tone gold, keyless, lady?s pendant watch in the Louis XVI style, with detachable matching chatelaine.

C. Four-body, "Louis XVI", fully chased with a scalloped rosette pattern of alternating applied green gold foliage. Hinged gold cuvette. Chatelaine: three links with matching decoration. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer Arabic minute track and Arabic fi ve-minute numerals. Gold Louis XVI hands. M. 24 mm, gilt brass, bar caliber, 8 jewels, wolf?s tooth winding, cylinder escapement, plain brass balance, fl at balance spring, index regulator. Cuvette signed, chatelaine punched "JAM". Diam. 30 mm, length with chatelaine 132 mm.