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Masterworks of Time: Splendours for the East 「時間傑作：西器東傳」
Masterworks of Time: Splendours for the East 「時間傑作：西器東傳」
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A GOLD HUNTING CASED QUARTER REPEATING CHRONOGRAPH WATCH WITH CONCEALED EROTIC AUTOMATON CIRCA 1890 [ 瑞士製黃金二問計時懷錶備隱藏式春宮活動人偶，年份約1890]
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November 12, 03:57 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 CHF
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A GOLD HUNTING CASED QUARTER REPEATING CHRONOGRAPH WATCH WITH CONCEALED EROTIC AUTOMATON
CIRCA 1890
[ 瑞士製黃金二問計時懷錶備隱藏式春宮活動人偶，年份約1890]
• Movement: nickel with decoratively engraved plates, lever escapement, bi-metallic compensation balance, blued steel spring with overcoil
• Dial: white enamel, Roman numerals, outer ring for minutes/chronograph seconds, sunken subsidiary seconds, filigree hands
• Case: 18ct pink gold with unusual bark finish engraved decoration, milled band, hand-setting lever beneath bezel, polished gold cuvette with personalised engraving and mark DK within rectangular cartouche, opening to reveal a concealed inner cuvette with ecclesiastical scene and applied polychrome enamel painted figures of a nun with two amorous men, the right hand gentleman automated, slide to engage/disengage scene from repeating work, case with Swiss hallmarks, case and cuvette numbered 2886
diameter 55mm
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