Lepine A Paris Verge Fusee 18k gold,diamonds&enamel watch.Cathrine II portrait
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Lepine A Paris Verge Fusee 18k gold,diamonds&enamel watch.Cathrine II portrait:
$3900.00
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Dear customers,we present for sale thisextremelyrare Important historical antique Lepine A Paris18kt gold,diamonds&enamelverge fusee pocket watch,with depictinghand painted enamel portrait of the Imperial Russian Empress Cathrine II TheGreat.
A museum quality watch!
Fantastic miniature-the enamell portrait is 10mm in diameter only!!! Surounded with rose cut diamonds.Diamond in the thumb piece.Hand engraved 18k goldcase.
The watch comes with the original matching silver&gold fob chain,original key,and original luxory presentation display box!
The enamel dial is signed Lepine a Paris.There is a small restoration on the dial over the key hole,made in vintage times.
Amazing high grade gild hand made&hand engraved verge fuseemovement.Perfect working order!!!.Original glass. Original hands. All the parts are original! .
If you are not satisfied in any way-money back guarantee.
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Some history:
Jean-Antoine Lépine (L’Pine, LePine, Lepine, L’Epine), was a revolutionary and inventive French watch and clockmaker, who contributed with crucial inventions for watchmaking still used nowadays. He was amongst the finest French watchmakers, who were years ahead of every other country in this respect.
Around 1770, he devised a means of manufacturing a pocket watch that could be thinner, favouring the onward quest for further miniaturization. His radical design broke with a 300-year tradition and ushered in the age of precision timekeeping, the modern pocket watch was born.
In addition to paving the way for the making of even thinner watches, this innovation was readily adaptable as the basic model for mass-producing watch-movements, a process that was to begin in the nineteenth century. Up to the 1840s, watches were all hand-finished, so that parts were not interchangeable. The Swiss, Leschot in particular, believed there was a market for cheaper, machine made watches with interchangeable parts.Refusing the incipient industrialization, French watch making only survived by becoming a peripheral adjunct to the Swiss watch making powerhouse, with only a few isolated Parisian cabinotiers still making truly French watches with French movements.
The usual practice in the 18th century was to have the movement between two parallel plates and the balance wheel outside the top plate. The Lépine calibre discarded the top plate altogether and used individual cocks mounted on a single plate. This arrangement made it easier to assemble and repair the pocket watches, but also allowed the balance to be set to one side.
Essentially, the "Lépine calibre" or "calibre à pont", served to reduce a watch’s thickness. To do this, it exchanged the traditional frame with two bottom plates for a single plate onto which the train is fixed with independent bridges. It also removed the fusee and its chain and then began using the cylinder escapement. He also invented the floating mainspring going barrel.
The Lépine calibre uses bars and bridges instead of pillars and upper plates. As mentioned, the movement has no fusee which equalizes the driving power transmitted to the train, replaced instead by a going barrel to drive the train directly. This improvement was facilitated by using the cylinder escapement and enhanced springs.
The calibre was quickly adopted throughout France and today its basic design is what characterizes all mechanical watches. It is important to note that the term "Lépine" can refer to both the calibre itself or a type of pocket watch with a flat, open-faced case in which the second wheel is placed in the axis of the winder shaft, in opposition to the savonete (or Hunter) watch where the second wheel and winder shaft are placed on perpendicular axes. This design has been known within the watch industry as the Lépine style ever since.
Lépine's work profoundly influenced all subsequent watchmaking, particularly Abraham Louis Breguet who used a modified version of the "calibre ponts" for his ultra slim watches. Indeed, except from the very start of his career the celebrated and extremely well known Breguet almost always used Lépine calibres and then modified them. Along with Ferdinand Berthoud Lépine was master of Breguet.
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Lepine A Paris Verge Fusee 18k gold,diamonds&enamel watch.Cathrine II portrait:
$3900.00