Le Roy, Palais Royal

Property from the Masterworks of Time Collection

Le Roy, Palais Royal

A gold centre seconds cylinder watch with stop slide quarter repeating à toc

Circa 1795, nos. 68 & 1061

• Movement: gilded full plate, cylinder escapement, fusee and chain, decoratively pierced and engraved balance bridge, polished steel end cap, silver regulation plate, two hammers repeating à toc on blocks mounted to the case band, backplate and movement rimsigned Le Roy au Palais Royal, backplate numbered no. 1061 

• Dial: white enamel, Arabic numerals, outer ring calibrated for minutes/seconds with Arabic quarter divisions, gold beetle and poker hands, blued steel centre seconds

• Case: gold, plain polished, stirrup-form pendant, case with maker's mark JD between two stars punched three times in asymmetrical and circular cartouches and incuse

diameter 58mm