Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

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

LOT 197

?Grapes for the Lovers? J(u)l(ie)n Le Roy, A Paris. Swiss made circa 1750. Fine, 18K gold and painted on enamel pocket watch.

C. Two-body, ?Louis XV?, the back painted with a courting scene in the countryside, the interior painted with a country house, bezel painted with continuous landscape, inside of the bezel with flowers. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with five-minute Arabic numerals, winding aperture at 4 o?clock. Diamond-set hands. M. 37 mm, hinged, gilt brass full plate with pentagonal baluster pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, micrometric potence adjustment, plain steel three-arm balance, flat balance spring, continental cock, silver regulation disc. Movement signed. Diam. 46 mm. To be sold without reserve