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Silver oignon with Wake-up calls, enamel and sado/erotic scene in an hide compartment

Case: silver, monoblock, with polichrome enamel representing a woman, and in correspondence of the enamel an hide compartment with inside a gold medallion representing a sado/erotic scene with a naked woman tied to a tree and a faun that whipping her. The inner side of the case is pierced and engraved.

Dial: silver with black engraved roman numerals. Subsidiary central dial for the wake-up calls with black engraved arabic numerals. Blue steel one hand.

Movement: verge escapement, fusée and chain, "three rays" steel balancer, two holes of charge, one for the clock and one for the wake-up calls. Pierced and engraved gilt "coq".

Period and provenance: circa end of XVII century, Geneve-Switzerland.

Signed: Fra-Cois  Ia quier (Francois Jaquier) Genevan watch maker with french origin escaped from France to Geneve during the "persecution of the Huguenots" in 1680.

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