11,250 CHF
Lugrin – Minute Repeating & Erotic Automaton A Lugrin, patent No. 66188, Swiss. Made for the Russian market circa 1890. Fine, hunting-cased, keyless, minute-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 a gentleman and a lady on an engraved silvered backplate. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and red Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. Cal. 20’’’, rhodium plated, 19 jewels, 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. Movement signed under the hour hammer. Diam. 53 mm. Property of an Swiss collector
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-03-27
