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