Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, Oct 15, 2006

LOT 195

?Erato ? The Muse of Love Poetry? J(u)l(ie)n Le Roy, A Paris. Swiss made circa 1750. Very fine and rare, 20K gold, painted on enamel and diamond-set pocket watch with Le Roy?s micrometric potence adjustment.

C. Two-body, ?Louis XV?, chased border, the bezel decorated with a continuous painted on enamel townscape and countryside, the back decorated with a finely painted scene on enamel scene depicting Erato and two putti in a wooded landscape, the interior of the back painted with buildings in a landscape, the pendant set with a single old-cut diamond. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five minute numerals. Rose diamond-set hands. M. 36 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. 45 mm. To be sold without reserve