Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2011

LOT 123

Reuge, The Huntsman?s Rest - 18K Gold Model Reuge, a Saint Croix. "The Huntsman?s Rest", No. 9. Made in the 1980's. Fine and rare, musical, 18K gold, center-seconds, keyless pocket watch with automaton and alarm. Accompanied by a lyre-shaped key and a Reuge fitted box.

HKD 27,000 - 45,000

USD 3,500 - 5,700 / EUR 2,500 - 4,000

Sold: HKD 65,000

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. 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. Matte gilt, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, flat balance spring, shock absorber, index regulator. Dial and cuvette signed. Diam. 57 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

The present watch is one of a very few examples of this model cased in 18K gold. It has an early serial number, No. 9, and a hand-engraved case. It was a personal gift from Guido Reuge, who was director of the Reuge firm for nearly sixty years, from the 1920?s to the 1980?s. Guido Reuge created the "Huntsman's Rest" series of musical and automaton pocket watches as an homage to his grandfather, Charles Reuge, who founded Reuge in 1865..