Leroy & Fils, Paris

A FINE GOLD HALF-HUNTING CASED LEVER WATCH WITH EUROPEAN TIME ZONES CIRCA 1870, NO.42787

• Movement: damascened nickel, lever escapement, gold train, bi-metallic compensation balance
• Dial: white enamel, Roman numerals, these painted beneath with 16 major European cities, rotating inner dial with inner Roman hour numerals and outer Arabic minute divisions, blued steel hands, marked Breveté S.G.D.G.
• Case: plain polished half-hunting form with open aperture to the front, gold cuvette, locking slide for the crown which rotates the central hour/minute disc, cuvette engraved Leroy & Fils, Horlogers 114 & 115 Galerie de Valois, Palais Royal Paris FAE No. 42787 case and cuvette further numbered 5875
diameter 49mm

Provenance:
Antiquorum Geneva, 11 November 2001, lot 115