12,500 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 fixed 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:
2011-05-15
