106,250 HKD
Lugrin – Quarter Repeating & Erotic Automaton A Lugrin, Swiss. Made for the Russian market circa 1890. Fine, hunting-cased, keyless, quarter-repeating, 14K rose gold pocket watch with concealed erotic automaton. Five-body, “bassine”, solid, polished. Hinged gold cuvette concealing the erotic automaton scene in polychrome painted on enamel depicting Mephistopheles, a gentleman, and a lady on an engraved silvered backplate. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, oute minute track and Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Gilt Louis XV hands. Cal. 20’’’, rhodium plated, 19 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Movement signed under the hour hammer. Diam. 53 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-10-09
