LEFEVRE | A GOLD OPEN-FACED GRANDE AND PETITE SONNERIE CLOCK-WATCH WITH VIRGULE ESCAPEMENT CIRCA 1815

LEFEVRE

A GOLD OPEN-FACED GRANDE AND PETITE SONNERIE CLOCK-WATCH WITH VIRGULE ESCAPEMENT
CIRCA 1815

• Movement: gilded full plate, virgule escapement, plain three arm brass balance, levers under the bezel in the band for strike/silent and grande/petite sonnerie, striking on two large flat steel gongs
• Dial: enamel, Arabic numerals and outer five minute divisions, two winding apertures to the centre, signed Lefevre, Sucr de Debelle, Rue de Honoré
• Case: gold, engine turned with fluted bands, small trip repeat button in the pendant, engraved 5-point star engraved in the circular cartouche on the back, Paris gold mark for 1809-1819

diameter 58mm

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Provenance:
The Sir David Salomons Collection

Vera Bryce Salomons

L.A. Mayer Memorial Institute, Jerusalem, inventory no. WA 23-70