Continuing down our list of five of the most complicated pocket watches in the #SothebysArchives. Number four is a Leroy featuring 11 complications produced in 1876 for Count Nicholas Nostitz of Moscow. We have to go all the way back to #SothebysGeneva in 1989 to see this masterpiece, where it debuted at auction and sold double its estimate at CHF 570,000. Leroy can be considered the forgotten complication master. Few collectors know or recognize that the Leroy 01, a different grand complication made in 1904, held the title as the world’s most complicated watch with 24 complications until Patek’s Henry Graves Supercomplication in 1933. When the original owner, Count Nicholas Nostitz of Moscow, passed in 1896, his family sold the Leroy to Dr. Antonio Augusto de Carvalho Monteiro of Portugal, one of the world’s leading watch collectors of the time. Caravalho was impressed but wanted to make it his own. Working with Leroy, a new, more ornate case was produced, and a replacement oute...