Objekt 18
Pocket watch with automatic "Barking dog"
Description
The gold case is translucent (translucent) enamel. Below the small dial with hour and minute hands is an automaton scene with a dog moving its head and audibly barking, and next to it a cat wagging its tail. The watch bears the mark "PM" for Piguet & Meylan on the dust cover. In the watch museum Beyer Zurich is the counterpart to this watch, there the automaton scene is worked in reverse.
Object description
Manufacturer: Piguet & Meylan (movement)
Geneva, around 1820
Gold, diamonds, enamel, glass
Bequest Carl and Lini Nathan-Rupp, Binningen
Inv. 1982.1086.