A fine and rare gold and enamel openface double dial automaton watch
Keywound movement, white enamel dial, Roman numerals, the band engraved with the inscription 'Hommage au Général Bonoparte Commandant en Chef l'Armée d'Italie Geneve 20 Novembre 1797', glazed back with a painted polychrome enamel landscape surmounted by a vari-coloured gold automaton scene depicting a mounted hunter holding a falcon, his horse drinking from a fountain and moving its head up and down while the wings of a windmill in the background are turning and a stream of water is running out of the fountain, all activated by depressing a button in the band, circular case, polychrome champlevé enamel decorated bezel, dial cracked, circa 1800, 5.5cm long
A fine and rare gold and enamel openface double dial automaton watch
Keywound movement, white enamel dial, Roman numerals, the band engraved with the inscription 'Hommage au Général Bonoparte Commandant en Chef l'Armée d'Italie Geneve 20 Novembre 1797', glazed back with a painted polychrome enamel landscape surmounted by a vari-coloured gold automaton scene depicting a mounted hunter holding a falcon, his horse drinking from a fountain and moving its head up and down while the wings of a windmill in the background are turning and a stream of water is running out of the fountain, all activated by depressing a button in the band, circular case, polychrome champlevé enamel decorated bezel, dial cracked, circa 1800, 5.5cm long
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