French gold quarter repeater with Jacquemarts Circa 1815

Open faced quarter repeating automaton watch
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A yellow gold quarter repeating watch with automaton Jacquemarts, circa 1815. Manual winding movenet.
Silvered engine turned dial, central chapter ring, with Breguet numerals, with three figures that strike in unison to the time including two  vari coloured gold figures striking bells above, and the third figure striking a drum at 6 o’clock, gold case, coin edge band, gilt metal cuvette, cuvette and movement signed.
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Diameter: 54 mm
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Sigend: Charles Oudin
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Charles Oudin, (1768-1840) an innovative watchmaker, was a pupil of Abraham-Louis Breguet. Oudin established his own workshop at the Palais Royal no. 52 in 1805.