Lépine

AN EXCEPTIONAL GOLD QUARTER REPEATING CALENDAR WATCH WITH EQUATION OF TIME INDICATION CIRCA 1830

• Movement: gilded, lever escapement, jewelled to the centre, bi-metallic compensation balance, single polished steel hammer repeating on coiled gong, polished cuvette with aperture for female winding square, cuvette signed Lépine
• Dial: white enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute ring with red Arabic 5-minute divisions, two sectors above for equation of time to the left and retrograde date to the right, each with red Arabic numerals, blued steel hands, the equation hand with gold sun terminal, central aperture for month, signed Lépine
• Case: gold, engine-turned back with central cartouche set with rock crystal insert reverse engraved with a monogram, milled band, finely engine turned bezels, short repeating slide to the upper right case side, numbered 254 and with maker's mark EM within losenge shaped cartouche
diameter 56mm

Provenance:
Habsburg Feldman Geneva, 11 November 1987, lot 76