Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Apr 03, 2019

LOT 115

Pocket chronometer with Observatory Bulletin

HKD 13,000 - 15,600

EUR 1,450 - 1,750 / USD 1,700 - 2,000


Grading System
Grade: A

Good

Case: 3-8

Good

Slightly scratched

Movement: 3-01 *

Good

Dial: 3-6

Good

Slightly oxidized

Brand L. Leroy & Cie, Paris & Besançon

Year circa 1918

Movement No. 11 722

Calibre  18’’’ gilded brass, with going barrel, straight-line lever escapement, Guillaume balance and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve, Besançon Observatory seal

Case No. 32

Material Gun-metal

Diameter 50 mm.

Signature Dial and movement

Accessories Extract from the Archives

Notes

Open-face, keyless-winding, round-shaped, pocket chronometer, with subsidiary seconds at 6

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The watch was sold on January 26, 1918, to M. Haugk, Paris (15, rue d’Astorg), in a gold case (No. 5 347), engraved with the cypher “C H”. At an unknown date, the original case was replaced by the actual in gun-metal.