Description

Specialties

1789

• Bazile-Charles Leroy Founded House of Le Roy.

Clockmaker to

• Emperor Napoleon.
• Madam Mère.
• The Duke of Bourbon.
• Princess Pauline.

1823

• Patent filed for a self-winding atmospheric clock operated by a weathervane.

1828

• Partnered with his son Charles-Louis.

1836

• Appointed Purveyor to the King and the Duke d’Orléans.

1840

• Patent for wind clocks.

1845

• Assigned the business to clock maker Casimir Halley Desfontaines conditional upon him retaining the name.

1865

• Death of Charles-Louis Leroy.

1879

• Louis Leroy joined the business.

1898

• Business renamed Ancienne Maison Le Roy et Fils. L. Leroy et Cie successeurs.

1897

• Ultra-complicated watch no. 1 begun – completed in 1904.

1904

• Grand Prize at the St. Louis exhibition.

1930

• Made an Officer of the Legion of Honour.

1935

• Death of Louis Leroy.

1961

• Death of Léon Leroy.
• Pierre and Philippe Leroy took over the firm.