Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong - Kong, Oct 09, 2010

LOT 172

Lugrin ? Quarter Repeating & Erotic Automaton A Lugrin, Swiss. Made for the Russian market circa 1890. Fine, hunting-cased, keyless, quarter-repeating, 14K rose gold pocket watch with concealed erotic automaton.

HKD 70,000 - 100,000

USD 9,000 - 13,000 / EUR 7,000 - 10,000

Sold: HKD 106,250

C. Five-body, ?bassine?, solid, polished. Hinged gold cuvette concealing the erotic automaton scene in polychrome painted on enamel depicting Mephistopheles, a gentleman, and a lady on an engraved silvered backplate. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, oute minute track and Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Gilt Louis XV hands. M. Cal. 20???, rhodium plated, 19 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Movement signed under the hour hammer. Diam. 53 mm.

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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3-19

Good

Dent(s)

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-70-01

Good

ENAMEL AND VARIOUS TYPES OF DECORATION Hairline

HANDS Original