Swiss repeating erotic automaton with Jacquemarts Circa 1910

Rose gold, champlevé, enamel and diamond-set lever watch by Paul Buhre
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A fine and large Swiss 18 carat rose gold, champlevé, painted on enamel and diamond-set hunting cased minute repeating keyless lever pocket watch with Jaquemart dial and concealed erotic automaton made for the Russian market, circa 1910. Rhodium-plated movement, Geneva striping decoration, 29 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Hinged cuvette with polychrome enamel erotic scene depicting a couple enjoying the pleasure of a sailor in a wooded landscape. White enamel two-piece dial with Arabic numerals, outer minute track, inset subsidiary seconds, the polychrome painted on enamel border decorated as a sailing ship with sailors on the rigging, the two above the dial appearing to strike a bell when the repeating is activated and original pierced gold fancy hands. The case back is overlaid with translucent Imperial blue guilloché enamel, a polished gold, translucent red and opaque blue enamel lappet border, a large rose-cut diamond within black enamel in the centre, polished gold and translucent red enamel anthemion border, the front cover is decorated with a finely painted scene of Cossacks defending themselves from a bear attack in a snowy wooded landscape, border decorated to match the back cover, band decorated to match. Dial signed.
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Diameter: 63.5 mm
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Signed: Paul Buhre Swiss