A rare and important gold and jeweled quarter repeating pocket watch by Charles Le Roy of Paris. A tri coloured gold case with raised bandings of different gold designs to the case sides. Diamonds and crystals to the case with emeralds in the shape of hearts and 4 sections of enamel work.A convex enamel dial signed ''Ch les Le Roy A PARIS. Beautifully pierced silver hands with diamonds and crystal 5 minute markers between the Roman numerals.A gilt, full plate verge fusee mechanism with a pierced and engraved balance bridge. Signed and numbered. A plunge repeating mechanism on two gongs with a strike/silent button. A key wind mechanism.After having become a master on August 16, 1733, he opened a workshop in the rue des Pręcheurs, moving in 1745 to the rue Saint-Denis. He was clockmaker to the King and the wealthiest of French nobility. Examples of his work are in the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Louvre in Paris.40mm wi...