Swiss rare gilt five minute repeating automaton Circa 1990

Gilt metal repeating automaton 
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A  Swiss gilt metal open faced five minute repeating automaton pocket watch made by Kelek in La Chaux-de-Fonds, circa 1990. The face with a small central white enamel dial for time display featuring Arabic hour numerals, outer minute divisions and Breguet hands, flanked by applied gilt Jacquemarts on a dark blue enamelled ground showing a neoclassical female holding a harp and an automaton male figure striking a bell, a dog chasing a duck below. The snap-on case back is engraved with floral decoration. Gilt nickel movement with a lever escapement and 17 jewels. Dial signed.
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Diameter: 49 mm
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Signed: Kelek Swiss made
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Kelek SA was a Swiss watch manufacturer founded in 1896 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, known for mechanical complications, chronographs and pocket watch movements.
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Initially, the company manufactured complicated watches, such as chronographs, primarily for the military. Later, they specialized in complex mechanical complications such as repeaters and automatons.
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In the 1960s, director and master watchmaker Gabriel Feuvrier met Willy Breitling, leading to a close collaboration. This partnership intensified over the following years, and Kelek played a key role in developing various complications for Breitling.
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In 1997, Kelek merged into Breitling, from 2002 onwards, operating under the name Breitling Chronométrie.
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Prior to this, there had already been a collaboration with the manufacturer Chronoswiss founded by Gerd-Rüdiger Lang in 1983 in Munich. A successful German-Swiss co-branding from the 1980s and 1990s. By joining forces, Chronoswiss brought extremely rare and complex masterpieces to market, recognisable by the shared signature on the dial.