Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, May 10, 2015
LE ROY & FILS - QUARTER-REPEATER Le Roy & Fils, Hgers de la Marine, Palais-Royal, 13 & 15 Gal.ie Montpensier, Paris, No. 53070. Made circa 1880. Fine and rare, quarter-repeating, keyless, 18K gold pocket watch.
Four-body, bassine et filets, polished, engine-turned back cover with engraved monogram "HJC", flat band. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with black radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Gold spade hands. 19''', matte gilt, 27 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Cuvette signed.
Grading System | |
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Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 2-01 |
Very good HANDS Original |