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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 02, 2000

LOT 190

Julien Le Roy à Paris, No. 2470, with Paris hallmarks for 1748.Fine 18K gold, quarter dumb repeating watch.

CHF 3,500 - 4,000

C. Double body, Louis XV, repoussé in a shell pattern. D. White enamel with Roman numerals and outer Arabic minute ring. Gold Louis XV hands. M. Hinged gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement with plain steel three-arm balance, flat balance spring, gilt brass continental cock with agate end-stone. Repeating on the case by depressing the pendant.Signed on the back plate, the dial plate engraved with the inscription: Inventé par Jul. Le Roy en 1740.Diam. 45 mm.


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Grade: A

Good
Case: 4 - 10
Movement: * 4
Dial: 4-8-21-04

Fair

Slightly scratched

Period

HANDS Later

Notes

The inscription: Inventé par Julien Le Roy en 1740, refers to the invention so-called à bâte levée (see Ch. Allix and G. Brusa: Antiquarian Horology, June 1972, an off-print copy of which is given with the watch).