8,750 CHF
LEROY ‘CORONATION OF NICHOLAS & ALEXANDRA’ SPLIT SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH L. Leroy & Cie, Horlogers de la Marine, 7 Bd. De la Madeleine, Paris, No. 18514. Made to commemorate the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna in 1896. Fine and rare, silver, keyless pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph and register. C. Four-body, “bassine”, polished, the back cover with applied high-relief silvered Russian Imperial coat of arms with the bust length portraits of Nicholas and Alexandra, olive-shaped button at 1 o’clock for the split-seconds, start/ stop of the chronograph activated by depressing the crown. Hinged silver cuvette. D. White enamel, black Arabic numerals, outer minute track, outermost fifths of a second chronograph divisions, Arabic five-seconds numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register. Gilt spade hands M. 19’’’, matte gilt, 21 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and cuvette signed. DIAM. 53 mm. Notes The coronation of Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna took place on May 6th, 1896. The present watch was made to commemorate the occasion
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-05-12
