Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 27, 2011

LOT 177

Lugrin ? Quarter Repeating & Erotic Automaton A Lugrin, Swiss. Made for the Russian market circa 1890. Fine, hunting-cased, keyless, quarter-repeating, 14K rose gold pocket watch with concealed erotic automaton.

CHF 6,000 - 8,000

USD 6,000 - 8,000 / EUR 4,500 - 6,000

Sold: CHF 21,250

C. Five-body, ?bassine?, solid, polished. Hinged gold cuvette concealing the polychrome painted on enamel erotic automaton scene depicting Mephistopheles, Faust, and Marguerite, on an engraved silvered backplate. D. White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions, subsidiary seconds. Steel spade hands. M. Cal. 20???, matte gilt, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Diam. 52 mm. Property of an Swiss collector


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Notes

Although apparently unsigned, this watch is typical of A. Lugrin. An almost identical watch signed Lugrin was sold by Antiquorum, Hong Kong, October 9, 2010, lot 172.