Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

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

LOT 196

?Le Lettre d?Amour? Le Roy, A Paris. Swiss made circa 1760. Fine, 18K gold and painted on enamel pocket watch.

C. Two-body, ?Louis XV?, the back painted with a country scene in the manner of Watteau, depicting a young man courting a lady, her blackamoor servant handing her a letter, the interior decorated with a bouquet of flowers, bezel painted with continuous landscape. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with five-minute Arabic numerals, winding aperture between 3 and 4 o?clock. Gold ?Louis XV? hands. M. 33 mm, hinged, gilt brass full-plate with pentagonal baluster pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, micrometric potence adjustment, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, continental cock, silver regulator disc. Movement signed. Diam. 44 mm. To be sold without reserve