Rare silver verge with French Revolutionary Time Circa 1794
- Kenmerk
- ZF0137
- Diameter
- 53, 57 mm
- Estimate
- € 5.000 - 10.000
- Price sold
- € 9.600
Very rare verge with French Revolutionary Time and normal time
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A very rare French silver verge with French Revolutionary Time and normal time, circa 1794, This watch is made during the French revolution 1789-1799.
Full plate fire gilt fusee movement, round pillars. Engraved and unusual open cock, three arm steel balance with spiral blue steel hairspring. Small silver regulator index. White enamel dial set with small Roman numerals for normal time and Arabic numerals for decimal time. Wound through the enamel dial. Engraved bezel and band.
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Diameter: 53 mm
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Weight 89 g
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Signed: Pre Le Roy
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Probably a Pierre Le Roy
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The French Republican Calendar , also commonly called the French Revolutionary Calendar, was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805, and for 18 days by the Paris Commune in 1871. The revolutionary system was designed in part to remove all religious and royalist influences from the calendar, and was part of a larger attempt at decimalisation in France which also included decimal time of day, decimalisation of currency, and metrication.
It was used in government records in France and other areas under French rule, including Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Malta and Italy.
Each day in the Republican Calendar was divided into ten hours, each hour into 100 decimal minutes, and each decimal minute into 100 decimal seconds.
Case back is a bit bumpy.
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Reference 040000
Signed: Pierre Le Roy à Paris























