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Lot 4085
02.03.2024 16:30UTC +01:00
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€ 3 000
AuctioneerKarl-Heinz Cortrie GmbH
Event locationGermany, Hamburg
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Lot 4085 | Pocket watch: large Adam & Eve automaton with elaborate ename…
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€ 3 000 – 5 000
Pocket watch: large Adam & Eve automaton with elaborate enamel painting, Charles Le Roy Paris around 1790
Ca. Ø57mm, ca. 115g, unusual silver case with 12-cornered band, back with domed plaque with enamel painting (added later), signed Garnet, framed by half Oriental pearls, unusual full plate movement with signed and numbered bridge, verge escapement, No.3705, enamel dial of special quality, fine painting with representation of various animals, window for the automaton, round enamel plaque with depiction of Adam and Eve is framed by a moving snake, gold Breguet hands, in beautiful condition, in working order. Charles Le Roy was born in Nanterre in 1709. Le Roy became a master watchmaker on 16 August 1733. He was appointed "Horloger du Roi" watchmaker to the king in 1737. He signed his watches "Charles Le Roy" from 1734, and Etienne-Augustin continued to use this name until 1792. Charles and Etienne Le Roy were particularly successful and became wealthy. Their customers included the largest watch lovers of the time, such as King Louis XVI, the Count de Provence, Mademoiselle de Clermont, and the courts of Sweden and Saxony. The king's inventory on 1 January 1788 included nine watches by Charles Le Roy, which were kept in the private rooms of King Louis XVI in Versailles. Cases for the watches were made by Balthazar Lieutaud (circa 1720-1780) or Nicholas Petit (1732-1791). Watches by Charles Le Roy can be found today in various museums, Musée du Louvre Paris, Historisches Museum Basel Basel, The J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, Musée Cognacq-Jay, Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris and in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon (Museum) in Dresden.
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