62,500 HKD
QUARTER REPEATING EROTIC AUTOMATION Swiss, signed Repetition 1st Quality. Made circa 1890. Fine, hunting-cased, keyless, quarter-repeating, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with concealed erotic automaton. Five-body, “bassine”, solid, polished. Hinged gold cuvette concealing the painted erotic automaton scene depicting a gentleman and a lady on an engraved gilt backplate. White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. Cal. 20’’’, gilt, 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. Diam. 52 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-10-23
