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Objekt 5

Pocket watch with Jacquemarts and repetition

Description

This pocket watch has a repeater with Jacquemarts: when the repeater is triggered, the two putti strike the bells with hammers. When the hour strikes, a hammer beater appears on the bridge on the left, and Chronos, the god of time, appears on the right with a scythe.

Object description

Geneva or Neuchâtel, around 1820

Gold, enamels

Bequest Carl and Lini Nathan-Rupp, Binningen

Inv. 1982.1009.

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