A GOLD AND ENAMEL TWO-TRAIN WATCH WITH PROCESSIONAL AUTOMATON AND C♉HATELAINE CIRCA 1800 [ 黃金飾琺瑯活動🐭人偶懷錶備雙傳動鏈系統及腰鍊,年份約1800]
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Roux Bordier, Roman & Cie.
A GOLD AND ENAMEL TꦫWO-TRAIN W♐ATCH WITH PROCESSIONAL AUTOMATON AND CHATELAINE
CIRCA 1800
[ 黃金飾琺瑯活動人偶懷錶備雙傳動鏈系統及腰鍊,年份約1800]
• Movement: gilded full plate, se꧅parate trains for going and automaton, verge escapement, fusee and chain, cylindrical pillars
• Dial: first - white enamel, eccentric time dial with Arabic numerals and outer minute ring, gold hands, subsidiary dial above for regulation, two apertures for winding going and automaton trains • second dial - with champlevé enamel in light blue, black and white enamel depicting a balustrade, an oval roundel beneath depicting a dog barking at a bird in a tree, sector aperture above with processional automaton depicting a carter, children on a seesaw and a lady with a stick all against a background with vernis Martin-style lacquered s♛cene of a windmill, the sails turning with the automaton while water flows froꦜm the spout of a masked fountain
• Case: gold, the bezels decorated with black champlevé enamel, slide to left of pendant for activating automaton, gold pendant numbered 1447
• Chatelaine: the pendant hook with panel depicting a maiden before an altar of love in wax against a translucent blue guilloché enamel ground, the main panel with shepherds and their flock rendered in wax against a similar enamel backgrou🦂nd, four pendant chains terminating in a key, blank seal and two tassels, pendant hook in steel
diameter 53mm, length overall 235mm
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For another processional automaton, also with windm𒊎ill by Roux Bor💞dier Roman & Cie, see: Galeries Genevoise d'Horlogerie Ancienne, II, 24 March 1975, lot 136.
Kathlee꧋n Pritchard notes in Swiss Timepiece Makers 1775-1975 that Roux Bordier, Roman & Cie was founded in 1798 and dissolved in 1811 (see op. cit.🔯 p. R-93).