Henry Capt à Genève, No. 244, circa 1810. Fine and rare 18 ct. gold musical watch with a concealed enamelled erotic automaton scene. | Important Collector's Wristwatches and watches | Hong Kong, Hotel Furama Kempinski, 14th June 1995

Important Collector's Wristwatches an...

Hong Kong, Hotel Furama Kempinski, Jun 14, 1995

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Henry Capt à Genève, No. 244, circa 1810. Fine and rare 18 ct. gold musical watch with a concealed enamelled erotic automaton scene.

HKD 380,000 - 450,000

USD 50,000 - 60,000

C. Three body, Empire, polished with faceted band. Disclosed by the opening back and applied to a gold, enamelled, panel painted to represent a boudoir (slightly restored), an automaton couple executed in multi-coloured gold and driven by the musical train, are devoting themselves to basic reality. D. White enamel with Breguet numerals ( slightly restored). Gold Breguet hands. M. Gilt brass full plate double train with going barrel, cylinder escapement with plain brass three-arm balance and flat balance spring. Pin barrel musical train with six stacked steel blades. Signature scratched on the gilt brass dust rim. In very good condition. Diam. 58 mm.

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Produced few years earlier than similar watches made first by Piguet & Capt and slightly later by Piguet & Meylan, this watch differs from the other by its musical train, which is with pin cylinder instead of pin disc and by the automaton movements, the lady moving ter foot which is fixed on the later models.