LE ROY QUARTER REPEATER GOLD
Le Roy à Paris, No. 1816. Made circa 1800.
Fine, quarter-repeating, 18K gold pocket watch.
Three-body, "Empire", polished, reeded bezels and band,
slide on the band at 11 for locking the repeating. Gilt metal
cuvette hinged to the movement ring.
White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions,
winding aperture at 2. Blued steel Breguet hands.
41 mm., matte gilt full plate, verge escapement, threearm
brass balance, flat balance spring, pierced and chased
continental cock with polished steel endplate, silvered
regulation dial, repeating on gongs activated by depressing
the pendant.