95th Auction
2017/5/6
Lot 307
Julien Le Roy à Paris, Case No. 855, 46 mm, 84 g, circa 1770
A very fine verge pocket watch with gold chatelaine and watch key studded with a paste stone
Case: 20k gold. Dial: enamel. Movm.: full plate movement, chain/fusee, three-arm brass balance.
The decoration on back of this verge pocket watch is remarkably low-key, considering that the watch was created in the rococo period - which loved ornamentation and embellishment. The motif here is a geometric pattern swirling around a central flower.
"The signature "Julien Le Roy" was used from 1714 to 1783. Up to 1759 it designated items produced by the workshop of Julien II le Roy. It is now quite certain that after that date it was used by Pierre III Le Roy. Not only did the latter uses his father's signature, "Julien Le Roy", he was almost exclusivly known by this name, to the point that Louis XVI lists him under that name in his personal accounts....".
Source: "European Clocks in the J. Paul Getty Museum" by Gillian Wilson, David Harris Cohen, Jean Nérée Ronfort, Jean-Dominique Augarde, Peter Friess, Los Angeles 1996, p. 185.
A very fine verge pocket watch with gold chatelaine and watch key studded with a paste stone
Case: 20k gold. Dial: enamel. Movm.: full plate movement, chain/fusee, three-arm brass balance.
The decoration on back of this verge pocket watch is remarkably low-key, considering that the watch was created in the rococo period - which loved ornamentation and embellishment. The motif here is a geometric pattern swirling around a central flower.
"The signature "Julien Le Roy" was used from 1714 to 1783. Up to 1759 it designated items produced by the workshop of Julien II le Roy. It is now quite certain that after that date it was used by Pierre III Le Roy. Not only did the latter uses his father's signature, "Julien Le Roy", he was almost exclusivly known by this name, to the point that Louis XVI lists him under that name in his personal accounts....".
Source: "European Clocks in the J. Paul Getty Museum" by Gillian Wilson, David Harris Cohen, Jean Nérée Ronfort, Jean-Dominique Augarde, Peter Friess, Los Angeles 1996, p. 185.
estimated
3.400—5.000 €
Price realized
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