LEROY QUARTER-REPEAT POCKET WATCH GOLD
Leroy, Horloger du Roi a Paris, No. 8977. Made circa 1820.
Fine and very rare, quarter-repeating, two-train, 18K gold pocket watch
Four-body, "Empire", reeded band and borders. Hinged gilt cuvette
with apertures for the winding and hand-setting buttons.
Champagne, engine-turned, black painted radial Roman numerals,
outer minute track. Blued steel Breguet hands.
Matte gilt, standing barrel for winding, ruby cylinder escapement,
gilt three-arm balance with pare-chute on the upper pivot, flat balance
spring, bimetallic temperature compensation curb on the blued
steel index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by depressing the
pendant.
Cuvette signed.