Swiss 21 Carat gold and enamel single-handed watch Circa 1675

Gold and enamel open faced watch
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A very fine and important Swiss 21 Carat gold and enamel single hand pre balance spring watch, circa 1675. The Triumph of Juno by Pierre Pattey. The case back is finely painted on enamel depicting Juno in the clouds, two peacocks to her left, a figure playing a rainbow as if it were a harp and the figure of Zephyr, representing the wind, the band with four painted vignettes each with a house on a lake in an alpine setting, on the inside a castle with a passing traveller, bezel engraved with a repeated pattern.
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White enamel dial, large ring with radial Roman numerals and half hour indexes, the centre finely painted with Flora holding a bouquet of flowers in one hand and a horn-of-plenty in the other, blued steel poker hand with counterpoise. A gilt brass full plate movement, Egyptian pillars, fusee and chain, short three wheel train with five leaf pinions, verge escapement, circular steel foliot symmetrically pierced and engraved gilt cock secured by a screw, worm gear and pinion mainspring set up with silver scale plate. Signed on the movement, case signed Huaud le puisné Fecit.
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Diameter: 40 mm
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Signed: Pierre Pattey Genève
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Pierre Pattey. Master watchmaker. He taught Michel Deluc in 1692 and André Besson in 1698.
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Les Frères Huaut (or Huaud). The cases painted on enamel by ‘Les deux Frères Huaut’ were among the finest examples of their kind from the Geneva School and were not only highly valued when originally made, but remained as art treasures in the centuries that followed. Pierre I was the founder of the Huaud dynasty. He was born in 1612 in Geneva as the son of a French goldsmith Jean Huaud. He settled in Geneva in 1630 and three of his 11 children became famous enamellists like their father: Pierre II (1647-1698), Jean-Pierre (1655-1723) and Ami (1657-1724). The brothers were most likely trained by their father and worked with him. Pierre II started his own business around 1680. Jean-Pierre and Ami became partners in 1682 and were appointed painters to the Prussian court in 1686 when they moved to Berlin and started working for Elector Frederick William of Brandenburg (1620-1688). Among their most well-known works are Diana and Actaeon, The Judgement of Paris, The Holy Family, St. John the Baptist, The Nativity and The Adoration of the Shepherds.