Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 16, 2014

LOT 303

REUGE MUSIC AND AUTOMATA POCKET WATCH GOLD PLATED Reuge, "Romance" , No. 572. Made in the 1980s. Very fine, musical, gold-plated, center-seconds, pocket watch with automaton, concealed erotic automaton and alarm. Accompanied by the original fitted box and key.

Three-body, bassine, polished bezel, milled band, engine turned hinged back cover. Cuvette with aperture for the erotic automaton and winding the music and button for activating the music. White with Arabic numerals, outer minute/seconds 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.