3,250 CHF
REUGE MUSIC AND AUTOMATA POCKET WATCH GOLD PLATED Reuge, "Romance" , No. 861. Made in the 1980s. Fine, musical, gold-plated, center-seconds, pocket watch with automaton, concealed erotic automaton and alarm. Accompanied by the original fitted box and key. Three-body, bassine, polished bezel, reeded band, engine turned hinged back cover engraved with a musical trophy and foliate border. Cuvette with aperture for the erotic automaton and winding the music and button for activating the music. White with Arabic numerals, outer minute/seconds divisions. Gilt Breguet hands. Painted view of a country landscape with applied gilt metal automaton of a lady operating a water pump with moving water, a gentleman on horseback with a hawk on his moving arm and the horse with animated head drinking from the fountain, gilt metal foliage with two dogs and a basket in the foreground. Rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, flat balance spring, shock absorber, index regulator. Notes Dial signed. DIAM. 57 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2015-03-15
