LEROY & FILS, PARIS | A FINE GOLD HALF-HUNTING CASED LEVER WATCH WITH EUROPEAN TIME ZONESCIRCA 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 

Antiquorum Geneva, 11 November 2001, lot 115

Movement: not running but balance appears to be free and lever is engaging. Dial: with two faint hairlines running from edge of the dial above 12 o'clock towards the inner dial, further hairline at the edge of the dial below 6 o'clock running towards the inner dial. A couple of small scratches to the inner dial. Case: has been polished and with some light marks and scratches.
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The dial is marked with 16 European cities and is calibrated to show the time differences in hours and minutes between each. The central disc revolves via the crown which has a locking slide and can be adjusted to align 12 o'clock/60-minutes with the marked cities.