Description: This letter is from his friend and client, then director of the law school in Paris, who invited Lépine to visit him at home to discuss a very important matter (not mentioned). In the letter he argues that Lépine did not accept his invitation and he expresses his disappointment about this reminding Lépine that ‘the matter’ is very important.
Additional Info:
There are handwritten annotations in black ink on the letter which are attributed to Lépine himself. They show the calculations for a service or an order made and some sort of description which has not been deciphered yet.
Hand written documents connected with Jean – Antoine Lépine are extremely rare. There are barely images showing this watchmaker and during his lifetime and he did leave very few annotations about his work. When receiving this letter Lépine was already quite old, but still head of his workshop, he died in 1814 aged 93.
Antiquarian Horology 