264,000 HKD
Svend Andersen‚ At the President's Pleasure Svend Andersen Geneve, "Eros, No. 138". Made in 2009, sold on March 5, 2010. Very fine and rare, large, 18K white gold erotic wristwatch with polychrome painted erotic automata, painted polychrome dial and an 18K white gold Andersen buckle. Accompanied by a phallic shaped red leather Andersen fitted box with the signature in gold letters and Certificate of Origin. Three-body, massive, polished, concave bezel, straight lugs, transparent back to view the automaton, button at 8 to activate the automaton, sapphire crystals. On one side, painted on enamel with a portrait of President Clinton speaking from a podium, the White House in the background, applied white gold dot indexes. White gold skeleton dart hands. On the other side, under a sapphire glass, an erotic scene animated by three hand-painted automata: in the Oval Office, President Clinton receives the attention of Monica Lewinsky kneeling before him, on the desk the American Eagle flaps its wings. Manual winding by turning the crown clockwise for the automata, and winding-up by turning the crown anti-clockwise. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 15 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-06-25