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18K ¼-Hour Bell Repeater Multi-Gold Repousse Verge Fusee by Lepine Pocket Watch
Estimated price for orientation: 4 575 $
Category: Antique
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Description Features: Quarter Hour Repeater, Includes Key Country Made: France Movement: Mechanical: Hand-winding
18K ¼-Hour Bell Repeater Multi-Gold Repousse Verge Fusee by Lepine Pocket Watch with Key
France; Lepine; Unisex; Circa: 1760
Complications: ¼-repeater
CASE: The 18K multi-color gold 14-size, 42mm swing-out case features an open face and a garden scene with a maiden.
DIAL: This white porcelain dial displays Arabic numerals and poker hands.
MOVT: This key-set movement with verge /fusee escapement is gilt with a full plate layout and is signed.
C 3-15 (The case is in very good condition-slightly worn.)
D 3-53-54 (The dial is in very good condition-very slightly chipped-chipped, winding aperture.)
M 3 (The movement is in very good condition.)
R 8 ½ (Rarity on a scale of #1 being very common to #10 being extremely rare.)
Experts Opinion: Multi-gold repousse case, ¼-hour pump on a bell repeat, diamond pusher. A bargain in the market place! AI-CAT170-37 Pump Quarter Hour Repeater
The repeater is set in motion by depressing the pump in the stem of the pocket watch, when the safety slide is switched off. The quarter repeater strikes the number of hours, and then the number of quarter hours since the last hour. The mechanism uses 2 chimes of different tones. The low tone usually signals the hours, and the high tone the quarter hours. As an example, if the time is 2:45, the quarter repeater sounds 2 low tones and after a short pause 3 high ones: "dong, dong, ding, ding, ding". Alternatively, some use a pair of tones to distinguish the quarter hours: "dong, dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong". Key-wind/Key-set Movements
The very first pocket watches up until the third quarter of the 19th century had key-wind and key-set movements. A watch key was necessary to wind the watch and to set the time. This was usually done by opening the case back and putting the key over the winding-arbor (which was set over the watch's winding-wheel, to wind the mainspring) or by putting the key onto the setting-arbor, which was connected with the minute-wheel and turned the hands. Some watches of this period had the setting-arbor at the front of the watch, so that removing the crystal and bezel was necessary to set the time. This watch includes a reproduction of the correct size key, it is not the original. Verge Fusee Escapement
Used in antique spring-powered mechanical watches and clocks, a fusee is a cone-shaped pulley with a helical groove around it, wound with a cord or chain which is attached to the mainspring barrel. Fusees were used from the 15th century to the early 20th century to improve timekeeping by equalizing the uneven pull of the mainspring as it ran down. The mainspring is coiled around a stationary axle (arbor), inside a cylindrical box, the barrel. The force of the spring turns the barrel. Full Plate
A plate (or disc) that covers the works and supports the wheels pivots. There is a top plate, a bottom plate, half, and 3/4 plate. The top plate has the balance resting on it. Repoussé or Repoussage
Repousse is a metalworking technique in which a malleable metal is ornamented or shaped by hammering from the reverse side to create a design in low relief. It is also known as embossing. Jean-Antoine Lépine (L’Pine, LePine, Lepine, L’Epine), born as Jean-Antoine Depigny, was one of the greatest watchmakers of all time. He contributed inventions which are still crucial to watchmaking today and was amongst the finest French watchmakers, who were contemporary world leaders in the field. CUSTOMER SERVICE: Phone 1-800-424-5353 Contact: Rick Gilbert Hours:9 - 5 EST, Monday - Friday Address: eAshland_net Sarasota Arts & Antique Center 640 South Washington Blvd, Suite 200 Sarasota, FL 34236 INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS: Import duties, taxes and charges are not included in the item price or shipping charges. These charges are the buyer’s responsibility. Please check with your country’s customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to bidding/buying. These charges are normally collected by the delivering freight (shipping) company or when you pick the item up do not confuse them for additional shipping charges. We do not mark merchandise values below value or mark items as “gifts” - US and International government regulations prohibit such behavior. CODE OF ETHICS...Deal wit
Description
| Features: | Quarter Hour Repeater, Includes Key | Country Made: | France |
| Movement: | Mechanical: Hand-winding |
France; Lepine; Unisex; Circa: 1760
Complications: ¼-repeater
CASE: The 18K multi-color gold 14-size, 42mm swing-out case features an open face and a garden scene with a maiden.
DIAL: This white porcelain dial displays Arabic numerals and poker hands.
MOVT: This key-set movement with verge /fusee escapement is gilt with a full plate layout and is signed.
C 3-15 (The case is in very good condition-slightly worn.)
D 3-53-54 (The dial is in very good condition-very slightly chipped-chipped, winding aperture.)
M 3 (The movement is in very good condition.)
R 8 ½ (Rarity on a scale of #1 being very common to #10 being extremely rare.)
Experts Opinion: Multi-gold repousse case, ¼-hour pump on a bell repeat, diamond pusher. A bargain in the market place! AI-CAT170-37 Pump Quarter Hour Repeater
The repeater is set in motion by depressing the pump in the stem of the pocket watch, when the safety slide is switched off. The quarter repeater strikes the number of hours, and then the number of quarter hours since the last hour. The mechanism uses 2 chimes of different tones. The low tone usually signals the hours, and the high tone the quarter hours. As an example, if the time is 2:45, the quarter repeater sounds 2 low tones and after a short pause 3 high ones: "dong, dong, ding, ding, ding". Alternatively, some use a pair of tones to distinguish the quarter hours: "dong, dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong". Key-wind/Key-set Movements
The very first pocket watches up until the third quarter of the 19th century had key-wind and key-set movements. A watch key was necessary to wind the watch and to set the time. This was usually done by opening the case back and putting the key over the winding-arbor (which was set over the watch's winding-wheel, to wind the mainspring) or by putting the key onto the setting-arbor, which was connected with the minute-wheel and turned the hands. Some watches of this period had the setting-arbor at the front of the watch, so that removing the crystal and bezel was necessary to set the time. This watch includes a reproduction of the correct size key, it is not the original. Verge Fusee Escapement
Used in antique spring-powered mechanical watches and clocks, a fusee is a cone-shaped pulley with a helical groove around it, wound with a cord or chain which is attached to the mainspring barrel. Fusees were used from the 15th century to the early 20th century to improve timekeeping by equalizing the uneven pull of the mainspring as it ran down. The mainspring is coiled around a stationary axle (arbor), inside a cylindrical box, the barrel. The force of the spring turns the barrel. Full Plate
A plate (or disc) that covers the works and supports the wheels pivots. There is a top plate, a bottom plate, half, and 3/4 plate. The top plate has the balance resting on it. Repoussé or Repoussage
Repousse is a metalworking technique in which a malleable metal is ornamented or shaped by hammering from the reverse side to create a design in low relief. It is also known as embossing. Jean-Antoine Lépine (L’Pine, LePine, Lepine, L’Epine), born as Jean-Antoine Depigny, was one of the greatest watchmakers of all time. He contributed inventions which are still crucial to watchmaking today and was amongst the finest French watchmakers, who were contemporary world leaders in the field. CUSTOMER SERVICE: Phone 1-800-424-5353 Contact: Rick Gilbert Hours:9 - 5 EST, Monday - Friday Address: eAshland_net Sarasota Arts & Antique Center 640 South Washington Blvd, Suite 200 Sarasota, FL 34236 INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS: Import duties, taxes and charges are not included in the item price or shipping charges. These charges are the buyer’s responsibility. Please check with your country’s customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to bidding/buying. These charges are normally collected by the delivering freight (shipping) company or when you pick the item up do not confuse them for additional shipping charges. We do not mark merchandise values below value or mark items as “gifts” - US and International government regulations prohibit such behavior. CODE OF ETHICS...Deal wit