35,742 HKD
Breguet à Paris, Swiss, circa 1815. Fine silver automaton "Adam and Eve" watch. Double body, Empire, polished with reeded band. Enamel with small eccentric Breguet chapter, decorated with a painted view of Paradise with several animais, circular aperture centred with a scene depicting "Adam and Eve" with the automaton serpent crawling around. Blued steel hands. Hinged gilt brass full plate with conical pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, gilt brass continental cock with polished steel end-piece. Signed on the dial and back plate. In very good condition. Diam. 50 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1994-06-17