8,750 CHF
CONCEALED EROTIC AUTOMATON & QUARTER REPEATING Swiss, bearing the signature Breguet. Made circa 1825. Fine, 18K pink gold quarter-repeating pocket watch with concealed erotic automaton. Three-body, "Empire", engine-turned, bolt between 10 and 11 for revealing the erotic automaton with varicolored gold figures operated in unison with the repeating. GiIt brass cuvette fi xed to the movement ring. Silver, engine-turned with radial Roman numerals on a brushed reserve, outer minute divisions, a sliding gold plaque revealing the erotic scene at 6. Blued-steel Breguet hands. 43 mm., frosted and gilt full plate, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain 3-arm balance, continental cock, silvered regulation dial, repeating on gongs activated by depressing the pendant. Signed sliding automaton plate. Diam. 56 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-11-13
