Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, Mar 27, 2011
LOT 176
Lugrin ? Minute Repeating & Erotic Automaton A Lugrin, patent No. 66188, Swiss. Made for the Russian market circa 1890. Fine, hunting-cased, keyless, minute-repeating, 14K rose gold pocket watch with concealed erotic automaton.
CHF 8,000 - 12,000
USD 8,000 - 12,000 / EUR 6,000 - 9,000
Sold: CHF 11,250
C. Five-body, ?bassine?, solid, polished. Hinged gold cuvette concealing the polychrome painted on enamel erotic automaton scene depicting a gentleman and a lady on an engraved silvered backplate. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and red Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. M. Cal. 20???, rhodium plated, 19 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. Movement signed under the hour hammer. Diam. 53 mm. Property of an Swiss collector
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: A |
Good |
Case: 3-25 |
Good Chipped |
Movement: 3** |
Good Repair required, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 4-71-01 |
Fair ENAMEL AND VARIOUS TYPES OF DECORATION Hairlines HANDS Original |