20,000 CHF
QUARTER REPEATING & EROTIC AUTOMATON – OUTDOOR PLEASURES Attributed to A. Lugrin, Swiss. Made circa 1890. Fine, hunting-cased, keyless, quarter-repeating, 14K rose gold pocket watch with concealed erotic automaton. Five-body, bassine et fi lets, solid, polished. Hinged gold cuvette concealing the polychrome painted on enamel erotic automaton scene depicting a Swiss gentleman and a lady on the grass in an alpine landscape. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. Cal. 20’’’, rhodium plated, 19 jewels, counterpoised straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Diam. 53.5 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-11-13
