77,500 CHF
HENRY CAPT "MUSIQUE D'AMOUR SECRET CUPIDON" REPEATING MUSICAL WATCH WITH CONCEALED EROTIC AUTOMATON "MENAGE A TROIS" Henry Capt à Genève, No. 383. Made circa 1810. Extremely fine and equally rare, 18K gold and painted on enamel, two-train, quarter-repeating musical watch with concealed erotic automaton scene, playing at will. Three-body, "Empire", with reeded band, the back centered with a finely painted on enamel scene of winged Cupid seated in a landscape resting on a draped quiver, engraved foliate border. WATCH White enamel, Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions two winding apertures. Yellow gold hands with pierced tips. AUTOMATON Gold and finely painted on enamel with an automaton scene of two gentleman with a lady in a sumptuous interior enjoying the pleasures of the flesh whilst another man peers around the door, activated via a steel cam when the music plays. Gilt brass full plate double train movement with cylindrical pillars, going barrel and cylinder escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, polished steel end- piece, repeating on gongs activated by twisting the pendant, regulator arm protruding from under the cuvette with engraved scale at the edge. Musical train with pin-barrel and six individual blued steel blades mounted between the plates. Movement ring signed "Hy Capt à Genève", case and movement punch-numbered 383. Notes DIAM. 60 mm. HENRY-DANIEL CAPT Born in Chenit in 1773, he married Henriette Piguet. He specialized i
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-11-09
