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- Estimate
- £4,000–£6,000 hammer ≈ $5,174–$7,761
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — Important Watches, London · 28 October 2020
- Record ID
- TB-2026-4868674
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 28 Jul 2026 · source ↗
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Swiss, swiss | a gold and enamel musical seal with erotic automaton, circa 1820. Sotheby's, 28 Oct 2020, lot 301. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4868674.
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Swiss, swiss | a gold and enamel musical seal with erotic automaton, circa 1820. Sotheby's, 28 Oct 2020, lot 301. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4868674.
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|---|---|---|---|
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| a silver and enamel timepiece, hermann böhm, vienna, late 19th century | — | £3,000–£5,000 | |
| a silver and enamel timepiece, hermann böhm, vienna, circa 1870 | — | £800–£1,200 | |
| movado | two purse watches with date, one retailed by cartier circa 1… | Movado | £1,000–£1,500 | |
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The closest sold results by price, artist, and medium — the appraiser's comp set, generated from the corpus. All figures converted to USD at current reference rates.