Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Jul 10, 2005

LOT 93

?Fair Beauty? Dreyfus & Cie, Genève, No. 57208. Made circa 1910. Fine and amusing, 18K gold hunting-cased, keyless minuterepeating pocket watch with concealed erotic automaton.

C. Five-body, ?bassine?, engine-turned covers with polished borders,the front cover with a vacant cartouche, polished band,gold hinged cuvette with concealed enamel erotic scene depictingtwo soldiers enjoying local hospitality in a drawing room.D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute trackand Arabic five minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Gold?Louis XV? hands. M. 44 mm (20'''), rhodium plated, 33 jewels,counterpoised straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetalliccompensation balance with Breguet balance spring, index regulator,repeating on gongs activated by a slide in the band.Case and cuvette signed.Diam. 55 mm.