Attributed to Henri Capt. A very fine and rare, 18K gold and painted on enamel, two-train, quarter-repeating musical automaton watch with further concealed erotic automaton scene, playing music at will Unsigned, movement no. 507, Genève, circa 1810 Movement: manual, two train, going barrel and cylinder escapement, repeating on gongs activated by depressing the pendant, regulator arm protruding from under the cuvette with engraved scale at the edge. Musical train with pin-barrel and eight stacked steel blades, scratch numbered “507” on the movement ring Dial: small eccentric gold, engine turned and engraved, Breguet numerals, the centre engraved with a rosette, dial plate finely painted enamel with a scene of a flower garden around a classical building, applied varicoloured gold chased automaton scene of a seated gentleman playing the mandolin and a seated lady playing the lyre, to the side two birds in an arbour, one moving towards the other with the music Case: three-part, polished with reeded band, under the back cover a finely painted enamel erotic automaton scene of a monk and a nun standing in the interior of the church while a priest lectures them from the pulpit, the bible on the floor, 59 mm. diam. Provenance B. Franck Collection, Paris, by the early 20th century.
Attributed to Henri Capt. A very fine and rare, 18K gold and painted on enamel, two-train, quarter-repeating musical automaton watch with further concealed erotic automaton scene, playing music at will Unsigned, movement no. 507, Genève, circa 1810 Movement: manual, two train, going barrel and cylinder escapement, repeating on gongs activated by depressing the pendant, regulator arm protruding from under the cuvette with engraved scale at the edge. Musical train with pin-barrel and eight stacked steel blades, scratch numbered “507” on the movement ring Dial: small eccentric gold, engine turned and engraved, Breguet numerals, the centre engraved with a rosette, dial plate finely painted enamel with a scene of a flower garden around a classical building, applied varicoloured gold chased automaton scene of a seated gentleman playing the mandolin and a seated lady playing the lyre, to the side two birds in an arbour, one moving towards the other with the music Case: three-part, polished with reeded band, under the back cover a finely painted enamel erotic automaton scene of a monk and a nun standing in the interior of the church while a priest lectures them from the pulpit, the bible on the floor, 59 mm. diam. Provenance B. Franck Collection, Paris, by the early 20th century.
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