Anonymous

An extremely rare gold, enamel, and pearl-set quarter repeating automata watch with Jacquesmarts, Made for the Chinese Market, Circa 1810 Swiss

Dial: white enamel, Arabic numerals, outer minute ring, surrounded by a polychrome enamel painted scene of a mountainous landscape with a lake in the foreground, applied vari-coloured gold foreground scene with automata depicting water flowing towards a turning water wheel whilst a fisherman catches a fish, his arm raising and lowering a fishing rod with a fish at the end of the line, the top of the dial with two vari-coloured gold Jacquemarts figures each appearing to strike a bell in unison with the watch's repeating work, against a dark sky Caliber: gilded full plate, cylinder escapement, plain flat three-arm brass balance, repeating on a bell mounted within the movement backplate, mechanical Case: gold, front and back with split-pearl-set bezels, the band decorated with stylised dot and dart engravings, case back with restored polychrome enamel painting depicting a landscape scene, a castle to the background and a farmer with cows and a dog in the river to the foreground, two small pushers to the right hand case side for opening front and back covers, switch beneath bezel at 11 o'clock for selecting automata, fixed inner gold domed cuvette decoratively engraved with flowers and foliage and pierced for sound emission, apertures for winding automata and going trains, indistinct case maker's mark to inside back cover 18k yellow gold, yellow gold radial Roman numerals set with chapter ring on white gold Size: 49 mm diameter Signed: case and movement Box: no Papers: no