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Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Apr 13, 2002

LOT 240

Leroy, Paris, No. 825, circa 1880. Fine small 40 hour-going deck chrono-meter with power reserve indication.

CHF 2,500 - 3,000

EUR 1,800 - 2,000 / USD 1,500 - 1,800

Sold: CHF 4,600

C. Three-body mahogany deck-watch type box. Brass bowl with screwed bezel. D. Frosted and silvered with Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down sector at 12 o?clock. Gilt brass ?spade? hands. M. 62 mm., gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, the barrel passing through the back plate, and secured by a bridge, Earnshaw type spring detent escapement, two-arm compensation balance with cylindrical weights and timing nuts, free-sprung palladium helical balance spring, diamond endstone. Signed on the dial, movement and box. Dial diam. 70 mm., box 7 x 10 x 12 cm.


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Grading System
Grade: A

Good
Case: 3-6

Good

Slightly oxidized
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-8-01

Good

Slightly scratched

HANDS Original

Notes

This chronometer was produced by Theodore Marie Leroy (1827-1899), a celebrated maker in Argenteuil, and pupil of Vissière. He also worked for Breguet and Winnerl. He became Horloger de la Marine in 1859. When he left Breguet in 1859, he was very poor and a father of several children. He bought a second-hand chronometer made by J. H. Rodanet, bearing the No. 199, which he presented to the timing contest the same year and began his own serial number with the number 200.