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Index No. A5344 Quarter Repeating Erotic Automaton
A late 19th Century quarter repeating Swiss lever with an erotic scene in a gold full hunter case. Nickelled three quarter plate keyless movement with going barrel. Plain cock with polished steel regulator, compensation balance with blue steel overcoil hairspring. Screwed in jewelling, club foot lever escapement. Slide quarter repeating on two polished steel gongs. White enamel dial with subsidiary seconds, Roman numerals, pierced gilt hands. Plain 18 carat red gold full hunter case. A second lid to the gold cuvette concealing an erotic scene of polychrome enamel figures on silvered ground engraved with an interior of a room. The polychrome figures engaged in an amorous encounter spring to life when the repeat mechanism is activated.
Anonymous Swiss
ConditionCirca 1890
CaseExcellent.
DialExcellent. Diameter 54 mm
MovementExcellent.
A rare original example of this form of erotic automaton.
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