Details
An unusual 18th century gilt, enamel and seed-pearl erotic automata pocketwatch playing music on five bells
Case: Chased, engraved and gilded one-piece, guilloche blue enamel to the reverse with seed-pearl decoration to the rim and bezel
Dial: White enamel with eccentric Roman chapter-ring and gold hands, sweep centre-seconds with outer seconds ring, pierced gilt balance cock at VI with ruby end-stone, the reverse with painted landscape with a house and automata water mill, the section of a castle in the foreground opening to reveal an erotic scene
Movement: Two train fusee cylinder with pin-barrel operating five hammers playing on five bells
66mm.diam.
Case: Chased, engraved and gilded one-piece, guilloche blue enamel to the reverse with seed-pearl decoration to the rim and bezel
Dial: White enamel with eccentric Roman chapter-ring and gold hands, sweep centre-seconds with outer seconds ring, pierced gilt balance cock at VI with ruby end-stone, the reverse with painted landscape with a house and automata water mill, the section of a castle in the foreground opening to reveal an erotic scene
Movement: Two train fusee cylinder with pin-barrel operating five hammers playing on five bells
66mm.diam.