Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jan 26, 2013

LOT 202

ARNEX, MUSICAL AUTOMATION AND ALARM Arnex Time Co., Swiss. Made in the 1980?s. Fine, musical, gold plated, center-seconds, keyless pocket watch with automaton and alarm. Accompanied by a box and key.

C. Three-body, bassine, polished bezel, reeded band, hinged back cover engraved with a musical trophy on a sunray background, alarm setting button at 11 o?clock. Cuvette with aperture for winding the music and button for activating the music. D. White with painted 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. M. Matte gilt, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, fl at balance spring, shock absorber, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 57 mm.