ATTRIBUTED TO JAQUET-DROZ, SWITZERLAND, GENEVA WORKSHOP, CENTER-SECONDS, STOP-WATCH, MUSICAL AUTOMATON COACH WATCH PLAYING MUSIC ON THE HOUR OR AT WILL WITH FIVE HAMMERS ON FIVE BELL, GILT BRASS AND COLOR STONES
A magnificent large and extremely rare gilt brass and color stones, manual wind . Outer case, two hinged bezels, pierced and chiseled in foliages, bezel with alternating red and white stones. Inner case : double-body, front glazed for the automaton and dial, sides pierced and chiseled andengraved with foliage, back engraved with foliage. Large, center seconds, white enamel dial with aperturue for the automaton scene on the top half and bellow the dial with Roman hours and Arabic numerals for the minutes, the automaton represents villagers crossing a bridge over a waterfall with their animals with a forest background, a total of 18 motions, 8 turning clock wise and 10 turning anticlock wise.
Brand : Attributed to Jaquet-Droz, Switzerland
Year : Circa 1790
Diameter : outer case 160 mm
Caliber : 110 mm., Fire-gilded, full-plate, fully foliate engraved, English gilded cock pierced and engraved with foliage, fuse and chain for both trains, cylinder escapement, plain steel balance, flat balance spring, engraved regulation dial on the backplate with blued steel hand, overbanking pin on the body of the cylinder staff, diamond endstone. Musical train with fusee and chain, five hammers on five bells, pinned brass cylinder mounted vertically, fly mounted beneath a separate cock on the back plate. The automaton is driven by the music train. The music plays every hour or on demand activated by a lever in the bezel
