20,000 HKD
REUGE MADE FOR TISSOT MUSICAL AUTOMATION - THE HUNSTMANS REST Reuge made for Tissot, The Huntsman’s Rest, No. 1298. Made in the 1980's. Fine, musical, gold plated, center-seconds, keyless pocket watch with automaton and alarm. To be sold without reserve Three-body, bassine, polished bezel, reeded band, hinged back cover engraved with a musical trophy on a sunray background, alarm setting button at 11 o’clock. Solid cuvette with aperture for winding the music and button for activating the music. Small white with painted Arabic numerals, outer minute 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. Matte gilt, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, fl at balance spring, shock absorber, index regulator. Dial signed Tissot. Cuvette signed Reuge. Diam. 57 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-10-19
