£14,000
A SWISS GOLD QUARTER REPEATING AUTOMATON WATCH WITH JACQUEMARTS AND CONCEALED EROTIC SCENE
c.1810, gilded full plate movement, verge escapement, striking two steel gongs, pierced and engraved balance bridge, white enamel chapter ring, Arabic numerals, skeletonised background with jacquemarts holding hammers for striking, automaton goat on a blued steel background which nods its head when the plunger is depressed, erotic automata scene to the bottom concealed beneath the goat. 57mm diameter, 145 grams gross
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