354,000 HKD
Siberian Bear Attack & Nautical Erotic Automaton Paul Buhre, Swiss, “Faber Type”. Made for the Russian market, circa 1910. Fine, large, minute-repeating, 18K pink gold, champleve and painted on enamel, diamondset, hunting-cased, keyless, pocket watch with painted on enamel Jaquemart dial and concealed erotic automaton. Four-body, “bassine”, the back cover overlaid with translucent Imperial blue guilloche enamel, polished gold, translucent red enamel and opaque blue enamel lappet border, the center set with a large rose-cut diamond within a black enamel, polished gold and translucent red enamel anthemion border, the front cover decorated with a finely painted scene of Cossacks defending themselves from a bear attack in a snowy wooded landscape, border decorated to match the back cover, band decorated to match. Hinged cuvette with painted on enamel erotic scene depicting a couple enjoying the pleasure of a sailor in a wooded landscape. White enamel, two-piece, Arabic numerals, outer minute track, inset subsidiary seconds, the polychrome painted on enamel border decorated as a sailing ship with sailors on the rigging, the two above the dial appearing to strike a bell when the repeating is activated. Pierced gold fancy hands. Rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 29 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. Dial signed. Diam. 63,5 mm
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-06-27