42,500 HKD
REUGE MUSIC AND AUTOMATA GOLD PLATED POCKET WATCH Reuge, “Romance” No. 574. Made in the 1980s. Fine, musical, gold-plated, center-seconds, keyless pocket watch with automaton, concealed erotic automaton and alarm. Accompanied by the original fitted box, key, guarantee, paper. C. Three-body, bassine, polished bezel, reeded band, engineturned hinged back cover. Cuvette with aperture for the erotic automaton and winding the music and button for activating the music. D. White with radial Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions. Gilt Breguet hands. Painted view of a country landscape with applied gilt metal automaton of a lady operating a water pump with moving water, a gentleman on horseback with a hawk on his moving arm and the horse with animated head drinking from the fountain, gilt metal foliage with two dogs and a basket in the foreground. M. Rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, flat balance spring, shock absorber, index regulator. Dial signed. Diam. 57 mm. Thickness 22 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-06-22
