Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Apr 28, 2019

LOT 583

UNSIGNED POCKET WATCH WITH QUARTER-REPEATER AND EROTIC SCENE; 18K YELLOW GOLD AND ENAMEL

HKD 44,000 - 62,000

CHF 5,650 - 7,900 / USD 5,750 - 8,000

18K yellow gold, open-face, key-winding, round-shaped, pocket watch, with one horological complication: - Quarter-repeater on two steel gongs (activated by depressing the pendant) Case-back with painted on enamel on gold, by an unidentified workshop, showing a delicate young girl holding two kittens in her dress, which naively raising her nightie reveals her intimate parts that a nasty cat – probably the ancestor of the Angry Cat – eyeing the corner of the eye.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3-8

Good

Slightly scratched
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-13-01

Good

Slightly damaged

HANDS Original

Brand Unsigned

Year circa 1810-1820

Calibre  21''' gilded brass, with fusee and chain, verge escapement, monometallic balance (gilded brass) and blued steel flat hairspring, pierced and engraved gilded continental cock

Case No. 1 202 / 7 045

Material 18K yellow gold and enamel

Caliber 21''' gilded brass, with fusee and chain, vergeescapement, monometallic balance (gilded brass)and blued steel flat hairspring, pierced and engravedgilded continental cock

Dimensions Ø 54 mm.

Notes

A similar watch with a silver case (signed Breguet, No. 19 354; apocryphal signature), was auctioned by Antiquorum, Geneva, auction, March 31 ?? April 1st, 2001, The Sandberg Watch Collection, lot 134, sold for the amount of CHF 11 500.-; then, Antiquorum, Geneva, auction, March 27, 2011, lot 180, sold for the amount of CHF 12 500.-