Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 26, 2013

LOT 79

REUGE MADE FOR FAVRE LEUBA MUSICAL AND AUTOMATA POCKET WATCH GOLD PLATED Reuge made for Favre Leuba, No. 1902. Made in the 1980s. Fine, musical, gold-plated, center-seconds, keyless pocket watch with automaton and alarm. Accompanied by the original fitted box, certificate, key and paper.

Three-body, bassine, polished bezel, reeded band, engineturned hinged back cover. Cuvette, winding the music and button for activating the music. White with 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. Rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, flat balance spring, shock absorber, index regulator.