Watching rabbits

SOTHEBYS has a Swiss watch with bunnies having sex. Lot 163’s hare-raising watch “Bunnysutra” got hustled online.

Introduced in 2004, its glowin-the-dark dial depicts six bunnies, and it also has an erotic automaton complication. Tap the crystal, the hands around the dial sweep to stop at one of the couples. Those hands, which were not giving manicures, then return from some eyebrow-raising position to their original spot to show the time. Excellent condition. Estimate $500 to $1,000. The thing sold for $3,150.

Clock-a-doodle do.

JOHN Steinbeck. California-born, Stanford U dropout, Pulitzer Prize winner, Nobel Prize winner, author of “The Grapes of Wrath,” “Of Mice and Men,” “East of Eden.” His thoughts on his earliest trip to NYC: “The city beat the pants off me. Whatever it required to get ahead, I didn’t have it. I didn’t leave the city in disgust — I left it with the respect plain, unadulterated fear gives . . .

“All of everything is concentrated here, population, theater, art, writing, publishing, importing, business, murder, mugging, luxury, poverty. It is all of everything. It goes all night. It is tireless, and its air is charged with energy . . .

“Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it — once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.”

It’s only in New York, kids, only in New York.