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A FRENCH TWO-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER
L. LeRoy & Cie, No. 1125, circa 1895
The frosted silver dial signed and numbered L. LEROY & CIE No. 1125 PARIS, Roman hour numerals, sector up-and-down dial with gold hands, subsidiary seconds dial with blued steel hand, frost gilt movement, the top-plate inscribed L. Leroy & Cie No. 1125, reversed fusee, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic integral balance with four cylindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, flat spring detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl, gimbal with bolt action locking arm, plain three-tier mahogany box with external brass drop handles the middle section with rectangular bone plaque inscribed 1125 L. LEROY & CIE
93 mm. dial diam., 173 mm. sq. box
L. LeRoy & Cie, No. 1125, circa 1895
The frosted silver dial signed and numbered L. LEROY & CIE No. 1125 PARIS, Roman hour numerals, sector up-and-down dial with gold hands, subsidiary seconds dial with blued steel hand, frost gilt movement, the top-plate inscribed L. Leroy & Cie No. 1125, reversed fusee, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic integral balance with four cylindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, flat spring detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl, gimbal with bolt action locking arm, plain three-tier mahogany box with external brass drop handles the middle section with rectangular bone plaque inscribed 1125 L. LEROY & CIE
93 mm. dial diam., 173 mm. sq. box