Importantes Montres de Collection

Geneva, May 15, 2011

LOT 36

Reuge - The Gondoliers Musical Automaton Watch Reuge a Sainte Croix, No. 6157. Made in the 1980s. Fine, musical and automaton, gold-plated, center-seconds, keyless pocket watch with alarm. To be sold without reserve

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, painted view of the Venetian lagoon with applied gilt metal automaton of a lady being serenaded in a gondola, the musician moving his arm, the gondolier rowing the gondola, a moving boat in the background, gilt metal flowers and foliage in the foreground. Gilt Breguet hands. M. Matte gilt, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, flat balance spring, shock absorber, index regulator. Dial and cuvette signed. Diam. 57 mm.