Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, Mar 15, 2015
LOT 25
REUGE MUSIC AND AUTOMATA POCKET WATCH GOLD PLATED Reuge, "Romance" , No. 861. Made in the 1980s. Fine, musical, gold-plated, center-seconds, pocket watch with automaton, concealed erotic automaton and alarm. Accompanied by the original fitted box and key.
CHF 2,500 - 3,500
HKD 21,000 - 29,000 / USD 2,700 - 3,800
Sold: CHF 3,250
Three-body, bassine, polished bezel, reeded band, engine turned hinged back cover engraved with a musical trophy and foliate border. 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.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 2-8 |
Very good Slightly scratched |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 2-01 |
Very good HANDS Original |