Lot 70

Chaudoir à Genève, Movement No. 49464, Case No. 49464, 58 mm, 142 g, circa 1800
A magnificent quarter repeating verge pocket watch with two jacquemarts and erotic automaton "à trois couleurs"
Case: 18k rose gold. Dial: enamel, three-colour gold, skeletonized, visible mirror-polished rack strike. Movm.: full plate movement, keywind, chain/fusee, 2 hammers, 2 gongs, three-arm brass balance.
The two Jacquemarts, a man and a woman in three-colour gold period garments, strike the hours with their hammers on two large bells that are visible in the upper half of the dial. The centre of the dial has a small enamel chapter ring with Arabic hours. The concealed automaton at "6" has small sliding doors of blued steel decorated with a chased three-colour gold image of Cupid; the doors open whenever the repeater is activated and the erotic scene comes to life: a couple making love on a Recamier sofa.
Chaudoir is known and recorded as a maker in Geneva together with his partner Patry, from 1791 to 1795.

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