SWISS | A SILVER OPEN-FACED QUARTER REPEATING BRAS-EN-L'AIR WATCH WITH JACQUEMARTS, CIRCA 1790

Property from an Important Italian Collection

SWISS

A SILVER OPEN-FACED QUARTER REPEATING BRAS-EN-L'AIR WATCH WITH JACQUEMARTS

CIRCA 1790

Movement: gilded full plate, verge escapement

Dial: white enamel, applied vari-colour gold seated female figure, her arms holding arrows which raise to give the time on a pair of sectors indicating minutes and hours, while she shows the time the jacquemart putti strike the quarters

Case: silver, concave bezels, the arms activated by depressing the pendant, strike/silent slide to the band

diameter 64 mm