French quarter repeating watch with chatelaine and seal Circa 1750

Quarter repeating gold pocket watch
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A very fine and rare Louis XV quarter repeating gold and painted on enamel pocket watch with a gold and painted on enamel chatelaine with a gold key and gold and carnelian seal. Made by Pierre Le Roy in Paris, circa 1750.
Two body Louis XV and bassine case with a back decorated with a painted on enamel scene of a young man with a spade holding a plucked flower and seated in a landscape, opalescent sky over engine-turning, outer border of blue champlevé enamel foliate swags and the bezel decorated to match. The gold terminal on the chatelaine is pierced and engraved with a trellis pattern, set with a finely painted enamel on gold plaque depicting a young lady in country dress in her garden watering the roses, gold paillon and blue enamel border, four gold chains, the inner two decorated with blue and white champlevé enamel cross links and seed pearl set terminals.
White enamel dial with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and outermost Arabic five minute numerals, winding aperture at 2 0’clock and pierced and engraved gold hands. Matte gilt full plate movement with fusee and chain, verge escapement, three-arm brass balance, flat balance spring, continental balance cock with polished steel endplate, silvered regulation scale and repeating on a bell in the back of the case activated by depressing the pendant.
Dial and movement signed.
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Diameter: 39 mm

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Signed: Pierre Le Roy