Swiss gilt musical lever automaton with alarm Circa 1985
- Kenmerk
- SA0737
- Diameter
- 57 mm
- Estimate
- € 2.000 - 4.000
- Price sold
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Gilded open faced automaton with music and alarm
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A Swiss gilt metal open faced musical centre seconds lever automaton pocket watch with alarm, circa 1985. Gilt movement, 17 jewels, a straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, flat balance spring, shock absorber and index regulator. A gilt cuvette with a winding aperture for the automation. The front with a polychrome painted view of a country landscape with an 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 an animated head drinking from the fountain, varicoloured foliage with two dogs and a basket in the foreground, a small eccentric white enamel dial with Roman hours, an outer minute track and gilt Breguet hands. The plain case with a reeded band, alarm setting at 11 o’clock. Dial signed, cuvette signed and numbered.
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Diameter: 57 mm
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Signed: Reuge
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The origins of Reuge date back to 1865 when Charles Reuge set up a musical pocket watch shop in the Swiss Mountain town of Sainte-Croix. By 1886 his son, Albert Reuge opened a music box workshop, the company experienced success and their mechanisms were to be found in a range of products such as powder compacts and cigarette lighters. By 1930 Guido Reuge had built the Reuge factory and he guided the company for over 60 years. Today Reuge retains its historical elements still producing singing birds but moving with the times, their music boxes today come in traditional but also modern and innovative designs.
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A Swiss gilt metal open faced musical centre seconds lever automaton pocket watch with alarm, circa 1985. Gilt movement, 17 jewels, a straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, flat balance spring, shock absorber and index regulator. A gilt cuvette with a winding aperture for the automation. The front with a polychrome painted view of a country landscape with an 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 an animated head drinking from the fountain, varicoloured foliage with two dogs and a basket in the foreground, a small eccentric white enamel dial with Roman hours, an outer minute track and gilt Breguet hands. The plain case with a reeded band, alarm setting at 11 o’clock. Dial signed, cuvette signed and numbered.
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Diameter: 57 mm
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Signed: Reuge
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The origins of Reuge date back to 1865 when Charles Reuge set up a musical pocket watch shop in the Swiss Mountain town of Sainte-Croix. By 1886 his son, Albert Reuge opened a music box workshop, the company experienced success and their mechanisms were to be found in a range of products such as powder compacts and cigarette lighters. By 1930 Guido Reuge had built the Reuge factory and he guided the company for over 60 years. Today Reuge retains its historical elements still producing singing birds but moving with the times, their music boxes today come in traditional but also modern and innovative designs.
Signed: Reuge
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