Swiss

Swiss

AN ENAMEL AND SPLIT PEARL-SET QUARTER REPEATING MUSICAL WATCH PLAYING ON THE HOUR OR AT WILL WITH CENTRE SECONDS AND ASSOCIATED ENAMEL PAINTED SCENE, MADE FOR THE CHINESE MARKET

CIRCA 1840 AND LATER

[ 瑞士製畫琺瑯鑲半邊珍珠二問懷錶，正點或手動操作音樂報時，為中國市場製造，年份約1840及後]

• Movement: unsigned gilded, separate barrels for going and musical trains, cylinder escapement, plain three-arm balance, repeating on coiled gongs, music playing on concealed pinned disc

• Dial: white enamel, Roman numerals, outer Arabic minute ring, gold skeletonised hands, gilded centre seconds 

• Case: split pearl-set bezels and bow, the back with later polychrome enamel painted scene of a young couple in a landscape setting, the gentleman offering the lady a caged bird, milled gold band, pearl-set bow and pendant, polished cuvette with three apertures for winding trains and hand setting, all with directionals, slide for music activation to case side, musique/silence lever beneath cuvette

diameter 58mm

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