Lindell - another Leonville movement with the same crest/shield was shown in THIS THREAD. At that time the lion in crest was thought to belong to Badollet or Meylan.

According to the book by Meyers, Leonville was registered to Mathey Bros & Mathey, NYC. See the ad on page 168 of Ehrhardt's book number 3. It is for L & A Mathey. They seem to have specialized in complicated watches. Also see page 174 of the same book. It appears Meyers may have misnamed the company. Should it be Mathey Bros. and Mathez? It looks like Meylan may have been the importer of these watches. Somewhat confusing.

This watch was mentioned in the other thread. It is signed Badollet and has the same lion mark.

Thanks to both Jerrys and Tom.

So it looks like the "E. Leonville" name in fact belonged to Mathey Bros & Mathey of New York City. After that it gets as Jerry Freedman put it... "somewhat confusing". So what do you think, does that lion in the crest tell us who made the movement, who imported it, who sold it, all of the above, none of the above or what?

I find even higher grade Swiss watches to be very confusing.

Maybe some questions here would help?
Only a e-mail addy, but also shows the Mark on the page!!!

http://www.badollet.com/

Confusing is right!
Kathy Pritchard, in Swiss Timepiece Makers 1775 - 1975 shows the Badollet lion facing to the right, Tom's movement and the Badollet web page shows it facing to the left. Kathy also had the C. H. Meylan lion facing left, possibly the figures' direction got reversed in error, or the right facing lion may have been the trademark of J. M. Badollet & Co. rather than of J. J. Badollet & Co.. The name changed from J. M. to J. J. in 1890. Pritchard reports that J. J. Badollet and Meylan did cooperate together and may have shared the same (left facing) trademark.

OKOKOKOKOKOK if Ed and Lindell are stumped, you better tell your friend that there is NO HOPE of EVER finding out what it is! LOLOLOL

It's SO GREAT to see the Pro's stumped!!!!!!

YESYESYES

OK I'm alright now.

I've searched so much my brain is dead.

My best guess is that the chronograph was made by Meylan or by J.J. Badollet (possibly using Meylan parts), imported by Mathey and cased in the US, either by the importer or by the retailer. Since I think the case may not be original due to the way the lever slot is cut (its not parallel to the lever itself), it is most likely sized to fit a standard American (or Canadian) case.
There, that's my story and I'm stickin' to it! (at least until more evidence is found).

Returning to the Swiss chrono shown above, the chrono mechanism appears to be of the C. H. Meylan patent. You can compare it to the Waltham-Meylan chronos. There is some connection between Mathey Bros. and Meylan. I thought I had a copy of an ad which carries both names, but cannot find anything.

Mike