No Reserve
1033
L. Leroy & Cie
A fine yellow gold minute repeating single-button chronograph hunter-cased pocket watch with enamel dial and presentation box
Estimate
HK$80,000–160,000•︎
€9,000–18,100
$10,300–20,500
Manufacturer
L. Leroy & Cie
Year
1925
Case No
14636, 15410
Material
18K yellow gold
Calibre
Manual, jewelled
Dimensions
53mm diameter
Signed
Case, dial and movement signed
Accessories
Accompanied by L. Leroy fitted presentation box. Delivered with L. Leroy Extract from the Archives confirming the date of manufacture of the present timepiece in 1925 and its date of sale on 8th August 1925.
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Good To Know:
- Minute repeating single button chronograph from 1925
- Confirmed by L. Leroy Extract from the Archives
- Made for Est-Asiatique
L. Leroy & Cie ranked among the great Parisian watchmaking houses of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Founded in 1785 by Charles-Basile Le Roy as Horloger du Roi, the firm later operated as Le Roy & Fils before Louis Leroy assumed control in 1889 and renamed it L. Leroy & Cie. Under his leadership it excelled in naval chronometers and highly complicated pocket watches, culminating in the legendary Leroy 01 of 1900—a 24-complication masterpiece that remained the world’s most complex timepiece for nearly nine decades.
Manufactured in 1925, the present minute-repeating single-button chronograph was made for L’Est-Asiatique français, a French colonial trading and forestry company founded in 1902. Its success rested largely on Ernest Lesterre (1877–1932), a former naval officer who surveyed the Upper Mekong in 1901, joined the firm in 1908, and organised the floating of teak logs to Saigon. He later became Director-General and received the Légion d’honneur in 1925, the same year this watch was coincidently produced; the company was absorbed in 1932.
Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives of L. Leroy confirming its origin and its original presentation box. It is further presented in excellent overall condition, the watch retains its French hallmarks and crisp case numbers, with a monogram engraved on the hunter case.
- Minute repeating single button chronograph from 1925
- Confirmed by L. Leroy Extract from the Archives
- Made for Est-Asiatique
L. Leroy & Cie ranked among the great Parisian watchmaking houses of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Founded in 1785 by Charles-Basile Le Roy as Horloger du Roi, the firm later operated as Le Roy & Fils before Louis Leroy assumed control in 1889 and renamed it L. Leroy & Cie. Under his leadership it excelled in naval chronometers and highly complicated pocket watches, culminating in the legendary Leroy 01 of 1900—a 24-complication masterpiece that remained the world’s most complex timepiece for nearly nine decades.
Manufactured in 1925, the present minute-repeating single-button chronograph was made for L’Est-Asiatique français, a French colonial trading and forestry company founded in 1902. Its success rested largely on Ernest Lesterre (1877–1932), a former naval officer who surveyed the Upper Mekong in 1901, joined the firm in 1908, and organised the floating of teak logs to Saigon. He later became Director-General and received the Légion d’honneur in 1925, the same year this watch was coincidently produced; the company was absorbed in 1932.
Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives of L. Leroy confirming its origin and its original presentation box. It is further presented in excellent overall condition, the watch retains its French hallmarks and crisp case numbers, with a monogram engraved on the hunter case.