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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 24, 1999

LOT 392

Theodore Leroy, Constructeur de Chronometres, Fournisseur de la Marine, Prime aux Contours, Depot des Cartes et Plans de la Marine de 1'Etat, 88, rue de Varenne, Paris, No. 507, sold to Exposition Lotterie in 1878. Fine small 40 hour going deck chronometer with power reserve indication.

CHF 6,500 - 7,500

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 scale. Gilt brass "spade " hands. M. Frosted gilt brass full plate, relieved for the barrel, with cylindrical pillars secured by screws, fusee with chain and maintaining power, 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 screws, free sprung blued steel helical balance spring with terminal curves, diamond end-stone. Signed on the mahogany box, paper trade label inside the cover. Dial diam. 70 mm.


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Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 4-5

Fair

Poor
Movement: *4-5

Fair

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Poor
Dial: 4-5-01

Fair

Poor

HANDS Original

Notes

This chronometer was produced by Theodore Marie Leroy (1827-1899), celebrated maker in Argenteuil, pupil of Vissiere and worked for Winnerl in 1848. He returned to Vissiere at Le Havre, worked in London and later for Breguet as workshop foreman. He became Horloger de la Marine in 1859. When he left Breguet in 1859, he was very poor and the father of several children. He bought a second-hand chronometer made by J. H. Rodanet bearing the No. 199 which was presented to the timing contest the same year and began his own serial number with No. 200.