Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Nov 16, 2008

LOT 662

Minute-Repeating, Perpetual Calendar & Chronograph L. Leroy & Cie., Horlogers de la Marine, 7, Boulevard de la Madeleine, Paris, No.16313. Made circa 1910. Extremely fine and very rare, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold, keyless pocket watch with perpetual calendar, chronograph and moon phases.

CHF 25,000 - 30,000

USD 23,000 - 28,000 / EUR 16,000 - 20,000

Sold: CHF 26,400

C. Four-body, "bassine", polished. Hinged gold cuvette. D. Matte silver, black champleve Arabic numerals, outer minute track with five-minute Arabic numerals, outermost fifth of a second chronograph divisions, subsidiary dials for the days of the week, the months, leap year cycle, the date and the seconds with inner moon phase aperture, engineturned center. Blued-steel pear and lozenge hands. M. 19???, gilt brass, 36 jewels, wolf?s tooth winding, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band, chronograph with visible work and co-axial button on the winding crown for start/stop/return-to-zero fuctions. Dial, case, cuvette and movement signed. Diam. 53 mm


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Grade:
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Notes

Le Roy & Fils, later L. Leroy & Cie., which was established first in Palais Royal, Galerie Montpensier, and after 1900, at 7 Boulevard de la Madeleine.