Importantes Montres de Collection

Geneva, May 15, 2011

LOT 35

Reuge, Romance ? Erotic Automaton Charles Reuge a Sainte Croix, "Romance" No. 1537. Made in the 1980s. Fine, musical, gold-plated, center-seconds, keyless pocket watch with automaton, concealed erotic automaton and alarm.

C. Three-body, bassine, polished bezel, reeded band, engine-turned hinged back cover. Cuvette with aperture for the erotic automaton and winding the music and button for activating the music. D. Small with radial Roman numerals on a brushed steel chapter ring, 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. Rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, flat balance spring, shock absorber, index regulator. Dial and case signed. Diam. 57 mm.