Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jan 26, 2013

LOT 134

CHARLES REUGE, MUSICAL AUTOMATION Charles Reuge, Sainte Croix, No. 2018. Made in the 1990?s. Fine, musical, gold plated, center-seconds, keyless pocket watch with automaton and musical. Accompanied by a pocket watch stand. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, bassine, polished bezel, reeded band, hinged back cover, musical button at 11 o?clock. Cuvette with aperture for winding for activating the music. D. Silver with painted Roman 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, fl at balance spring, shock absorber, index regulator. Dial and case signed. Diam. 57 mm.