June 30, 2020 Fine Pocket Watch
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/30/2020
Rare & Important 18K Yellow Gold Louis Raby, Paris, Quarter-Hour Repeating Triple-Date Calendar Hunter Case Pocket Watch with Moonphases, Circa 1870.Cuvette marked "Louis Raby, Hger de l'Empereur, No. 4 Bvart des Italiens, Paris, No. 2365" beneath a beautifully hand engraved family crest/shield, or coat of arms design. The case is hallmarked in several places. As well as being the "Horloger de L'Empereur", Louis Raby was also an excellent apprentice to Abraham-Louis Breguet. Louis Raby is described by George Daniels in his definitive work The Art of Breguet as being one of Breguet's most talented pupils, surpassing even the Master in the execution of his own pendule sympathique (pg. 90).
Condition: (Excellent).
Case Material
18K Yellow Gold.
Dial
White enamel, single sunken with month and moonphase apertures..
Chapter
Roman with Arabic outer five minutes, black.
Subsidiary Dials
3 (Constant seconds with Moonphase aperture, Day & Date).
Hands
Gold spade with blued steel day, date and seconds.
Movement
Keyless Pin-Set, unmarked.
Complications
Quarter-Hour Repeater, Triple-Date Calendar with Moonphase.
Signed
"Louis Raby" on cuvette.
Condition
Excellent working order.