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A FINE GOLD OPENFACE CHRONOGRAPH
L. LEROY & CIE, H'GERS A PARIS, NO. 968
The gilt movement jewelled through the center, chronograph work on barrel and train bridges, activated by button in crown, pin set, inscribed 18K gold cuvette, engine turned gilt dial with arabic chapter ring enclosing 60-minute register and subsidiary seconds, blued steel Breguet hands, within a monogrammed 18K gold case, signed on cuvette, dial and movement, c. 1915--53mm. diam.
L. LEROY & CIE, H'GERS A PARIS, NO. 968
The gilt movement jewelled through the center, chronograph work on barrel and train bridges, activated by button in crown, pin set, inscribed 18K gold cuvette, engine turned gilt dial with arabic chapter ring enclosing 60-minute register and subsidiary seconds, blued steel Breguet hands, within a monogrammed 18K gold case, signed on cuvette, dial and movement, c. 1915--53mm. diam.