SWISS | A GOLD AND ENAMEL QUARTER REPEATING MUSICAL AUTOMATON WATCH FOR THE CHINESE MARKET CIRCA 1800

SWISS

A GOLD AND ENAMEL QUARTER REPEATING MUSICAL AUTOMATON WATCH FOR THE CHINESE MARKET

CIRCA 1800

gilded full plate movement partially engraved with fowers and foliage, cylinder escapement, pinned barrel musical movement, gilt cuvette bearing the signature Ellicott, Royal Exchange, London, quarter repeating on two steel gongs, small eccentric dial, engine-turned centre, Arabic numerals, restored polychrome enamel dial plate depicting a landscape, vari-coloured automata figures in the foreground of two musicians and a small bird, gold case with moulded band, slide in the band to activate the automaton, engine-turned case back with blank shield and applied monogram

diameter 62mm