101st Auction
2019/11/16
Lot 614
Le Roy & Fils, Palais-Royal, Galerie Montpensier 13 & 15, Paris, Movement No. 12574, Height 580 mm, circa 1860
An outstanding 8-day precision table clock with half hour/hour strike, perpetual calendar, moon phase, moon age, barometer, two thermometers and a rare Coupe Perdu escapement in the style of Casimir Desfontaines, with central second
Case: gilt bronze, round-arched, profiled case on six toupie feet, beveled glass panels on all sides, flanking volutes and urn finial top. Dial: enamel chapter rings with gilt profiled bezels. Movm.: square, gilt brass full plate precision movement, 2 barrels, solid moulded pillars, 1 hammer, 1 bell, pendulum fine adjusting mechanism with toothed disk with locking device, heavy gridiron compound pendulum, heavy, beveled brass bob. Additional gilt oblong full plate movement for calendar; an exquisite barometer mechanism is attached.
The hour dial with radial Roman numerals in the upper part; sunk center with applied escapement. Two calendar dials below: moon age and moon phase with days of the week on the left; dial with date and months on the right. Barometer display "Baromètre Métallique" below in the centre, two flanking thermometers with "Centigrade" und "Reaumur" scales on the left and "Fahrenheit" and "Reaumur" scales on the right.
This clock was last auctioned at Christie's in London on March 30, 1977.
Described and illustrated in "The French Clocks" by Tardy, vol. III, Paris 1982, page 95.
The Parisian company Leroy or Le Roy was founded by Bazile-Charles Leroy; in 1828 the name changed to Le Roy et Fils, when his son Louis-Charles Le Roy became a partner in the business. From 1829 on they worked as makers to the courts of the Dukes of Bourbon and Chartres.
Louis-Charles sold the company to Georges Casimir Halley des Fontaines in 1845 but the name stayed the same.
Despite a number of different owners the company name remained unchanged until the company closed in 1980. Le Roy et Fils are renowned for their high quality pocket watches and marine chronometer.
Source: https://watch-wiki.org/index.php?title=Le_Roy_et_Fils, as of 03/28/2019
An outstanding 8-day precision table clock with half hour/hour strike, perpetual calendar, moon phase, moon age, barometer, two thermometers and a rare Coupe Perdu escapement in the style of Casimir Desfontaines, with central second
Case: gilt bronze, round-arched, profiled case on six toupie feet, beveled glass panels on all sides, flanking volutes and urn finial top. Dial: enamel chapter rings with gilt profiled bezels. Movm.: square, gilt brass full plate precision movement, 2 barrels, solid moulded pillars, 1 hammer, 1 bell, pendulum fine adjusting mechanism with toothed disk with locking device, heavy gridiron compound pendulum, heavy, beveled brass bob. Additional gilt oblong full plate movement for calendar; an exquisite barometer mechanism is attached.
The hour dial with radial Roman numerals in the upper part; sunk center with applied escapement. Two calendar dials below: moon age and moon phase with days of the week on the left; dial with date and months on the right. Barometer display "Baromètre Métallique" below in the centre, two flanking thermometers with "Centigrade" und "Reaumur" scales on the left and "Fahrenheit" and "Reaumur" scales on the right.
This clock was last auctioned at Christie's in London on March 30, 1977.
Described and illustrated in "The French Clocks" by Tardy, vol. III, Paris 1982, page 95.
The Parisian company Leroy or Le Roy was founded by Bazile-Charles Leroy; in 1828 the name changed to Le Roy et Fils, when his son Louis-Charles Le Roy became a partner in the business. From 1829 on they worked as makers to the courts of the Dukes of Bourbon and Chartres.
Louis-Charles sold the company to Georges Casimir Halley des Fontaines in 1845 but the name stayed the same.
Despite a number of different owners the company name remained unchanged until the company closed in 1980. Le Roy et Fils are renowned for their high quality pocket watches and marine chronometer.
Source: https://watch-wiki.org/index.php?title=Le_Roy_et_Fils, as of 03/28/2019
estimated
14.500—19.000 €
Price realized
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