Swiss. An unusual 18K gold openface cylinder watch with automaton Unsigned, circa 1810 With full plate gilt-finished verge movement, chain fusée, engraved and pierced balance cock, the enamel dial with painted polychrome scene depicting various animals in the garden of eden, eccentric hour dial with Breguet numerals, glazed circular aperture to the upper half showing a gilt metal snake meandering around a painted enamel scene depicting Eve offering the apple to Adam, in circular engine-turned case with a small eccentric shield-shaped cartouche with engraved initials to the reverse, milled bezel, unsigned 52 mm. diam.
Swiss. An unusual 18K gold openface cylinder watch with automaton Unsigned, circa 1810 With full plate gilt-finished verge movement, chain fusée, engraved and pierced balance cock, the enamel dial with painted polychrome scene depicting various animals in the garden of eden, eccentric hour dial with Breguet numerals, glazed circular aperture to the upper half showing a gilt metal snake meandering around a painted enamel scene depicting Eve offering the apple to Adam, in circular engine-turned case with a small eccentric shield-shaped cartouche with engraved initials to the reverse, milled bezel, unsigned 52 mm. diam.
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