LEROY, NO. 820, CIRCA 1870
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A FRENCH SMALL-SIZE THIRTY-SIX HOUR MARINE CHRONOMETER
LeRoy, No. 820, circa 1870
The frosted silver dial signed and numbered LEROY No. 820, Roman hour numerals, yellow metal hour, minute and up-and-down dial hands, subsidiary seconds dial with blued steel hand, 18,000 train reversed fusee full-plate movement the top-plate inscribed LEROY NO. 820, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance, circular heat compensation weights with top-screws, flat strip steel detent (repaired) with jewelled locking stone to side of banking block, palladium helical balance spring, the balance cock stud with levelling screws, in brass drum case numbered 820 with screw-on bezel, in plain three-tier mahogany deck watch style box with compartment for key and rectangular bone plaque inscribed 820 LEROY
70 mm. dial diam., 102 x 123 x 71 mm. box
LeRoy, No. 820, circa 1870
The frosted silver dial signed and numbered LEROY No. 820, Roman hour numerals, yellow metal hour, minute and up-and-down dial hands, subsidiary seconds dial with blued steel hand, 18,000 train reversed fusee full-plate movement the top-plate inscribed LEROY NO. 820, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance, circular heat compensation weights with top-screws, flat strip steel detent (repaired) with jewelled locking stone to side of banking block, palladium helical balance spring, the balance cock stud with levelling screws, in brass drum case numbered 820 with screw-on bezel, in plain three-tier mahogany deck watch style box with compartment for key and rectangular bone plaque inscribed 820 LEROY
70 mm. dial diam., 102 x 123 x 71 mm. box