224,250 HKD
"Ménage à Trois" Paul Buhre, St. Petersbourg, No.32587, circa 1900. Fine gold hunting-cased keyless minute-repeating pocket watch with concealed erotic automaton. Accompanied by a fitted box and heavy gold Breguet style chain. Five-body, hinged and sprung front cover with polished border, foliate and grotesque beast monogramhighlighted with black enamel on an engine turned ground, polished band, hinged engine turned back cover withpolished border. Polished gold cuvette with sprung and hinged cover opening to reveal a polychrome enamelerotic automaton depicting two ladies and a gentleman in a boudoir. White enamel with radial Romannumerals, outer minute markers and Arabic five minute markers, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-02-20
