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ATTRIBUTED TO PIGUET & CAPT. A HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND MAGNIFICENT 18K GOLD AND ENAMEL, PEARL-SET MUSICAL, PERFUME FLASK AND AUTOMATON AMPHORA-FORM WATCH MADE FOR THE CHINESE MARKET SWISS, THE ENAMEL ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-FRANCOIS-ADAM HESS, GENEVA, CIRCA 1805 Movement: Manual, oval full plate, fixed barrel, cylinder escapement, steel escapement wheel, silver four-arm balance. Music and automaton with five-wheel train, small two-wing fly governor, pinned barrel with six stacked tuned teeth, automaton animated by two cams driven by the musical train Dial: White enamel, Breguet numerals within an oval blue enamelled plate with aperture for the visible polished steel diamond-set balance, white enamel subsidiary seconds above Case: Painted enamel panel below the watch decorated with a scene of a mother and her child holding grapes, opening to reveal the varicoloured gold automaton scene which depicts a boy to the left raising and lowering a stick, trying to encourage a dog to jump over it, to the right, a young lady plays a guitar, finely painted background with a classical urn upon a plinth within a wooded landscape, the body of the case richly set with graduated pearls and inlaid with polychrome champlevé enamel, sides with foliate engraving, set with pearls and polychrome champlevé enamel, the handles set with graduated pearls, the oval painted enamel panel over the watch movement decorated with a pair of nesting doves within a garland of flowers, panel below decorated with a finely painted pastoral scene of a herdsman driving his cattle to water beside a bridge, a village and castle beyond, 102 mm. high, 58 mm. wide