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Geneva, Nov 16, 2008

LOT 496

Quarter-Repeating & Independent Center-Seconds Leroy et Fils, Hrs. du Roi a Paris,No. 13447.Made circa 1820. Fine and very rare, quarter-repeating, two-train, 18K gold pocket watch with independent center-seconds, ruby cylinder escapement and Leroy patent fold-down winding buttons.

CHF 6,500 - 8,500

USD 6,000 - 8,000 / EUR 4,000 - 5,500

C. Four-body, ?Empire?, engine-turned, bolt at 1 to lock the repeating and at 6 for start/stop of the center-seconds. Hinged gold cuvette with apertures for the winding and hand-setting buttons. D. Silver, engine-turned, black painted radial Roman numerals, outer minute and seconds track. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 50 mm., matte gilt with two trains, standing barrels with fold-down buttons for winding, jeweled ruby cylinder escapement, gilt three-arm balance with pare-chute on the upper pivot, flat balance spring, bimetallic temperature compensation curb on the blued steel index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by depressing the pendant. Cuvette signed. Diam. 56 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3-11

Good

Slightly worn
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 4-7-11-01

Fair

Oxidized

Slightly worn

HANDS Original

Notes

This watch was updated by Leroy et Fils with their patent winding system; the fold-down buttons have been mounted onto the barrels and hand-setting arbor and the corresponding holes enlarged in the cuvette.