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Le Roy & Fils, Paris a late 19th century carriage timepiece the eight-day duration movement having a silvered platform lever escapement numbered to the underside 7601, the backplate signed Le Roy & Fils, 13 - 15 Palais Royal, Paris and numbered 18104 with the white enamel dial having black Roman numerals and blued steel moon hands, the corniche case with a typical three-bail handle, with travelling box and winding key, height 17cm handle up; 14cm handle down. * Biography Basile-Charles Le Roy was born in Paris in 1765, the son of the clockmaker Bazile Le Roy (1731-1804) and became a maître in 1788 having founded la Maison de Le Roy at 60, Galerie de Pierre, Palais-Royal in circa 1785 following the opening of the Palais-Royal gardens to the public and its buildings to the trade by Philippe Egalité, the duc d'Orléans. Following the French Revolution, during which Le Roy worked for the Republic signing his clocks Elroy, Le Roy moved his business to Galerie Montpensier, 13-15 Palais-Royal, where they were to remain for nearly a hundred years. Le Roy was appointed clockmaker to the Emperor Napoleon and other nobility. He exhibited clocks at the Paris Exposition of l'an VI (1797/8) and then 1819, 1823 and 1827. Basile-Charles's son Charles-Louis, born 1794, joined his father as a partner in 1828 after which the business became known as Le Roy et Fils and he was appointed both Horloger du Roi and Horloger du Ministère de la Marine in 1835. Basile-Charles died in 1839 and Charles-Louis in 1865, after which the business continued at the same address.