Roux Bordier, Roman & Cie.

Roux Bordier, Roman & Cie.

A GOLD AND ENAMEL TWO-TRAIN WATCH 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, separate 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 scene of a windmill, the sails turning with the automaton while water flows from 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 background, 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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