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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 02, 2000

LOT 231

Breguet à Paris, Swiss, circa 1815.?Au son des cloches?Fine 18K gold, half skeletonised quarter repeating watch with automaton Jacks and a small concealed erotic automaton scene.

C. Three-body, Empire, polished with reeded band. D. Small engine-turned gold with Breguet numerals on white enamel cartouches. Blued steel Breguet hands. ?Martin-Martine? type varicoloured chased gold Jacks, on each sides of the dial over the polished steel repeating work set on the gilt brass engine-turned front, strike the hours and quarters on two bells. A small steel panel below the dial with an applied small automaton goat, grazing vine branches, disclose the small automaton erotic scene.. Gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, gilt brass continental cock with polished steel end-piece. Repeating on two gongs by depressing the pendant.Apocryphal signature on the cuvette.Diam. 56 mm.