Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong - Kong, Oct 09, 2010

LOT 86

Arnex, The Huntsm an?s Rest Arnex (Reuge a Sainte Croix), No. 178. Made in the 1980s. Fine, musical, gold-plated, centerseconds, keyless pocket watch with automaton and alarm. Accompanied by a key and a fitted box. To be sold without reserve

HKD 14,000 - 20,000

USD 1,800 - 2,500 / EUR 1,400 - 2,000

Sold: HKD 27,500

C. Three-body, bassine, polished bezel, reeded band, hinged back cover engraved with a musical trophy on a sunray background, alarm setting button at 11 o?clock. Solid cuvette with aperture for winding the music and button for activating the music. D. Small white with painted Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions. Gilt Breguet hands. Painted view of a country landscape with applied gilt metal automaton of a lady operating a water pump with moving water, a gentleman on horseback with a hawk on his moving arm and the horse with animated head drinking from the fountain, gilt metal foliage with two dogs and a basket in the foreground. M. Matte gilt, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, flat balance spring, shock absorber, index regulator. Dial signed. Diam. 57 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: A

Good

Case: 2

Very good

Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original