Rare 19th C. French LeRoy a Paris 18k Gold plated silver watch.Ottoman.Tughra
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Rare 19th C. French LeRoy a Paris 18k Gold plated silver watch.Ottoman.Tughra:
$3900.00
Rare 19th C. French LeRoy a Paris 18k Gold plated silver watch.Ottoman.Tughra Rare 19th C. French LeRoy a Paris 18k Gold plated silver watch.Ottoman.Tughra
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DescriptionI am pleased to offer from my private collection this very rare and unusual antique mid 19th Century full hunter 18k Gold plated(vermeil) silver full hunter chased case pocket watch by the most famous French watch company of Le Roy a Paris,specially made for the Ottoman market.
(Le Roy worked personaly for the French King Loui XV,and he became ‘Horloger Ordinaire du Roi’ to Louis XV in 1739.)
MUSEUM QUALITY MASTERPIECE!
Amazing highly ornamented oversize (56mm) fancy chased case,decorated with the Ottoman Tughra.
The watch comes with the matching key
Fantastic enamel dial,with Ottoman ciphers.
Perfect working order.
The watch comes with the matching gold plated silver chain.
It can be a centerpiece in any collection!
Some history:
Julien le Roy (1686-1759), who is generally regarded as the most famous eighteenth century French clockmaker, significantly raised the standards of the Parisian clock trade. As the leader in his field his clientele included the cream of French society, not least King Louis XV and members of his court notably the Prince and Princess, the duc d’Orléans and Cardinal de Fleury. As a result of Le Roy’s friendship with the British clockmaker, Henry Sully and his senior colleague, William Blakey, a number of high quality English and Dutch makers were introduced into Parisian workshops. This as well as Le Roy’s own advances in the quest to improve accurate time measurement actively encouraged renewed life into the Flagging Parisian trade.
Born in Tours, he trained under his father, Pierre Le Roy and by the age of 13 had already made his own clock. In 1699 Julien Le Roy moved to Paris, where he was apprenticed under Le Bon; it is said that while there he succeeded in making and completing a watch in only eight days. Received as a maître-horloger in 1713, he later became a juré of his guild; he also became a member and later a director of the Société des Arts. But his most important appointment began in 1739 when he was made ‘Horloger Ordinaire du Roi’ to Louis XV. He was given lodgings in the Louvre though he never occupied them. Instead he installed his son, Pierre (1717-85) and continued to operate his own business from rue de Harlay, where he remained for the rest of his life. Le Roy created exceedingly fine clocks for the King including one in a Boulle case for the Château de Fontainebleau. In 1727 he made a repeating cartel as well as two repeating watches “which are the first to have been made so that His Majesty can remove the dials Himself to see the uncovered mechanism”. The following year Le Roy applied the same principle to his repeating mantle clocks.
Le Roy’s innovations and improvements were substantial, notably his perfection of monumental clocks that showed mean and true time, of which his model at Hôtel des Missions Etrangères was exemplary. Le Roy also researched equation movements showing and chiming true time and advanced pull repeat mechanisms. He also resolved many problems to do with watchmaking; by taking the best and discarding the least satisfactory elements from both French and English clockmaking he ensured that watches were subsequently easier to construct and simpler to maintain. One aspect was his adoption of George Graham’s cylinder, which eventually resulted in reducing the watch’s thickness. George Graham was among his many admirers, who on inspecting Le Roy’s work once noted “I would like to be younger so as to make watches like this”.
Due to his unrivalled success, Le Roy was not limited by commercial constraints; for instance he nearly always made high quality watches and clocks in pairs so that the case and decoration perfectly matched. He generally chose the cases himself, which were provided by the very finest makers of his day such as Nicolas Le Sueur, André-Charles Boulle – father and son, the Caffieris, Charles Cressent, Le Cocq, Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain and Robert Osmond as well as Balthazar Lieutaud, Antoine Foullet and others. Antoine-Nicolas Martinière, Nicolas Julien and possibly Elie Barbezat generally made his dials.
Le Roy’s work can be found among the world’s greatest collections including the Musées du Louvre, Cognacq-Jay, Jacquemart-André and Petit Palais in Paris. Other examples are housed at Château de Versailles, at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Guildhall in London and at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire. The Musée d’Horlogerie, La Chaux-de-Fonds and Museum der Zeitmessung Bayer, Zurich as well as the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels all house his work. As do the Museum für Kunsthandwerck, Dresden, the National Museum Stockholm and Musea Nacional de Arte Antigua, Lisbon. Works by Le Roy in American collections include the J. P. Getty Museum, California; the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore and the Detroit Institute of Art.
Like their father, Le Roy’s four sons all excelled in their field, one became a physician, one a chemist and another an architect and antiquarian. His eldest son, Pierre Le Roy was a brilliant clockmaker in his own right and one of the first to make a successful marine timekeeper.
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Rare 19th C. French LeRoy a Paris 18k Gold plated silver watch.Ottoman.Tughra:
$3900.00