Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2010

LOT 353

L. Leroy & Cie, chronograph L. Leroy & Cie a Paris, No. 62604, case No. 80207. Made circa 1905. Fine and rare, 18K yellow gold, keyless pocket watch with chronograph and instantaneous 30-minute register. Accompanied by the original L. Leroy fitted box.

C. Four-body, bassine, polished, the back with engraved monogram ?AV?, co-axial button for start/stop and return-to- zero of the chronograph in the crown. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, outermost fifths of a second chronograph divisions, subsidiary 30-minute register at 12, subsidiary seconds at 6. Gold spade hands. M. 17???, rhodium plated, 21 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and cuvette signed. Diam. 45.5 mm.