Exquisite 18Kt Gold Le Roy French Cylinder Pocket Watch With Original 18Kt Gold Brooch Circa 1850 Start Price GBP 835.00 Current Price GBP 835.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, September 04, 2008 End Time Thursday, September 11, 2008 Location London, London See more about 'Exquisite 18Kt Gold Le Roy French Cylinder Pocket Watch' Description SquareTrade © AP6.0 Exquisite 18Kt Gold Le Roy French Cylinder Pocket Watch With Original 18Kt Gold Brooch Circa 1850   You’re bidding on an attractive mid 19th century 18Kt gold full hunter pocket watch with diamonds & pearls with a very high quality cylinder movement all clean and in excellent working condition. This elegant time piece comes with an original 18Kt gold brooch. Dial: The original white enamel dial is clean with slight hair cracks, black Roman numerals. There is a set of fine chased blued hands; the dial is protected by an original mineral glass in excellent condition.   Case: The attractive 18Kt gold full hunter case with small rose’s diamonds & pearls the inner of the rear cover is numbered 156. The same number appears on the inside of the cuvette. The outside of the cuvette is nicely signed Le Roy & Fils holgers de la Marine it is numbered: N°39962 - 296 Regent street London. This is there shop in London. Movement: The French high-grade quality movement made gilt frosted cylinder movement is clean with compensated balance and a regulator for keeping precision time and is in fine working order however we cannot guarantee accuracy as it is an old watch fro 1850.   Signed: Le Roy - Diameter: 38mm - Circa: 1850   Le Roy Paris Literature: La dynastie des Le Roy Horlogers du Roi, Musée des Beaux- Arts de Tours. Julien Le Roy, born in Tours in 1686, developed at an early age, a gift for mechanical work and constructed a clock at the age of 13. At the age of 17, he went to Paris and became an apprentice of Le Bon. It is said that he learned so quickly that he started and finished a repeating watch in less than 8 days.  Julien Le Roy was a celebrated maker who raised the status of French watchmaking by the perfection of his work and design.  Died in 1785.   SEE : Watches by G.H. Bailie - See: Tardy page 396, Le Roy à Paris.   POSTAGE: We combine watches at no extra cost. The price for postage worldwide is £10 GBP or $20 USD. Items will be dispatched the next working day after funds are received and cleared. I endeavour to find both quality and unusual pieces and describe and photograph them as accurately as possible. To this end, I have had enormous enjoyment in dealing with all the wonderful customers, many of whom have returned to buy again. Please will you be good enough to remind me if you are a returning customer, as I will not charge you postage. Thank you kindly for your custom and support. Please serious bidders only!!! I try to describe all my items to the very best of my knowledge, do not hesitate to email me if you have any question, I shall answer you as soon as possible. I am a member from the NAWCC in USA, and Antiquarian Horology in England. Buyer pays item and shipment through bank, wire or PayPal. Place a Bid!