JAEGER, Swiss. Fine and unusual eight-day going, musical alarm clock with automaton scene. Made in the 1940's CASE: Black lacquered, designed as a small Neuchâteloise bracket clock, the automaton scene aperture below the dial. DIAL: Gilt brass with Roman numerals on a polished chapter ring, the frosted centre decorated with a sun. Gilt brass Louis XV hands. Driven by the musical train by means of cam and levers, the automaton scene, below the dial, features a maiden pumping water in a fountain where a horse is drinking, the rider holding a falcon on his hand.MOVEMENT: Nickel plated with going barrel, lever escapement, monometallic balance, flat balance spring. Musical train with pined cylinder and tuned steel toothed comb and fly regulator, released for the alarmSigned on the case.DIM: 130 x 105 mm.
JAEGER, Swiss. Fine and unusual eight-day going, musical alarm clock with automaton scene. Made in the 1940's CASE: Black lacquered, designed as a small Neuchâteloise bracket clock, the automaton scene aperture below the dial. DIAL: Gilt brass with Roman numerals on a polished chapter ring, the frosted centre decorated with a sun. Gilt brass Louis XV hands. Driven by the musical train by means of cam and levers, the automaton scene, below the dial, features a maiden pumping water in a fountain where a horse is drinking, the rider holding a falcon on his hand.MOVEMENT: Nickel plated with going barrel, lever escapement, monometallic balance, flat balance spring. Musical train with pined cylinder and tuned steel toothed comb and fly regulator, released for the alarmSigned on the case.DIM: 130 x 105 mm.
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