Sold for:
143,750 HKD
143,750 HKD
“Fair Beauty” Dreyfus & Cie, Genève, No. 57208. Made circa 1910. Fine and amusing, 18K gold hunting-cased, keyless minuterepeating pocket watch with concealed erotic automaton. Five-body, “bassine”, engine-turned covers with polished borders,the front cover with a vacant cartouche, polished band,gold hinged cuvette with concealed enamel erotic scene depictingtwo soldiers enjoying local hospitality in a drawing room. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute trackand Arabic five minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Gold“Louis XV” hands.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-07-10