Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2011

LOT 122

Reuge, Romance ? Erotic Automaton Charles Reuge a Sainte Croix, "Romance" No. 1480. Made in the 1980s. Fine, musical, gold-plated, center-seconds, keyless pocket watch with automaton, concealed erotic automaton and alarm. Accompanied by the original fitted box, instructiton, and key. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, bassine, polished bezel, reeded band, engineturned 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 signed. Diam. 57 mm.