5,750 CHF
Leroy, Paris, No. 350, sold to Mr. Abbé Desgodins in 1874. Fine small 40 hour going deck chronometer with power reserve indication. Three body mahogany deck-watch type box. Brass bowl with screwed bezel. Frosted and silvered with Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down scale. GiIt brass "spade" hands. Brass full plate, spotted finished 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 screws, free sprung blued steel helical balance spring with terminal curves, diamond end-stone. Signed on the dial. In very good condition. Dial diam. 62 mm. Notes This chronometer was produced by Theodore Marie Leroy (1827-1899), celebrated maker in Argenteuil, pupil of Vissière. He also worked for Breguet and Winnerl. Became Horloger de la Marine in 1859. When he Ieft Breguet in 1859, he was very poor and the father of several children. He bought a secondhand 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.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1994-10-15
