French 20 carat gold and enamel repeating lever watch Circa 1775
- Kenmerk
- BC0239
- Diameter
- 33 mm
- Estimate
- € 3.500 - 10.000
- Price sold
- € 3.850
Gold lever watch with enamel painting
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A French 20 carat gold and enamel open faced à toc repeating pocket watch made by Jean-Antoine Lépine in Paris, circa 1775. The movement with a modified lever escapement. White enamel dial with Arabic hours, outer minute divisions, outermost Arabic five minute numerals and probably original gold hands. The case with a polychrome enamel scene of a putto in front of rose bushes on the back and a concealed opening button integrated into the rim (typical of original Lépine watches). Cuvette numbered and signed L’Épine Hger du Roy à Paris, dial signed Lépine Invenit et Fecit.
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Diameter: 33 mm
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Weight: 31 g
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Signed: L’Épine Hger du Roy à Paris
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Jean-Antoine Lépine developed and manufactured this caliber around 1775. Only very few of these watches are known, most with a virgule escapement. Numbers 1883, 2042, 2176 and 2190 have been registered.
Signed: Lepine Invenit et Fecit – L’Epine hger du Roy a Paris
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