21,250 CHF
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 polychrome painted on enamel erotic automaton scene depicting Mephistopheles, Faust, and Marguerite, on an engraved silvered backplate. White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions, subsidiary seconds. Steel spade hands. Cal. 20’’’, matte gilt, 17 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. Diam. 52 mm. Property of an Swiss collector Notes Although apparently unsigned, this watch is typical of A. Lugrin. An almost identical watch signed Lugrin was sold by Antiquorum, Hong Kong, October 9, 2010, lot 172.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-03-27
