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.