Fine Swiss 18 carat gold Louis XV style brooch watch Circa 1900

Gold lady’s brooch watch
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A very fine Swiss, 18K gold keyless brooch watch, circa 1900. A Louis XV Style LeCoultre, Geneve, retailed by V. Lejeune, 16 Rue de la Banque, Paris. The bezel is decorated with alternating lozenges and flowerheads, the back is decorated with an angel sitting in a garden with two doves. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel dial, blue radial Roman numerals and gold painted star half-hour indexes, outer blue minute track and large Arabic five-minute numerals. Gold Louis XV hands. A frosted gilt movement, bar calibre, 18 jewels, wolf’s tooth winding, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Cuvette signed.
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Diameter: 31 mm
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Signed: LeCoultre  Genève
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This style of the watch was occasionally made by the best Swiss watchmakers in response to the late 19th-century fashion for the arts of pre-revolutionary France. The present watch is an almost perfect representation of the watches of the late Louis XV period but with the advantage of a keyless movement.