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Le Roy. A fine and rare 18K pink gold openface a toc quarter repeating verge watch with revolutionary date
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Le Roy. A fine and rare 18K pink gold openface a toc quarter repeating verge watch with revolutionary date

SIGNED LE ROY, AU CI-DEVANT PALAIS ROYAL, NO. 3245, CIRCA 1800

Closed12 May 2014

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Le Roy. A fine and rare 18K pink gold openface a toc quarter repeating verge watch with revolutionary date
Signed Le Roy, au ci-devant Palais Royal, No. 3245, circa 1800
Full plate gilt-finished verge movement, fusée, balance cock pierced and engraved with letters LR, à toc quarter repeating on one steel hammer onto a gold block in the case, engraved scroll decorated band signed Le Roy, hinged gilt dust cover, white enamel dial, Breguet numerals, inner gold revolutionary date ring calibrated for 30 days with central date hand, plain circular case, repeating through the pendant, case stamped with French guarantee mark for 20K gold, dial signed, movement signed and numbered
60 mm. diam.

Specialist note

The present watch indicates the standard time but the French Republican Calendar.

French Revolutionary Time and French Republican Calendar were introduced during the French Revolution in the decree of 5 October 1793. Although clocks and watches were produced indicating standard time with numbers 1-24 and decimal time with numbers 1-10, decimal time never caught on. It was not officially used until the beginning of the Republican year III, 22 September 1794, and was officially suspended on 7 April 1795. The French Republican Calendar, which divided the month into three décades of 10 days each, eventually also fell out of use, and was abolished at the end of 1805.