Sold for:
7,800 HKD
7,800 HKD
Erotic Automaton Swiss. Made circa 1900. Unusual, gun metal keyless pocket watch with concealed erotic automaton. To be sold without reserve Three-body, “demi-bassine”, gun metal, gilt brass bow. Automata activated through winding the crown. White enamel, black Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions and Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Gilt Louis XV hands. Frosted gilt, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Diam. 53 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-06-27
