Swiss rose gold and enamel automaton cylinder watch Circa 1815

Gold automaton probably by Pierre Simon Gounouilhou
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An extremely rare Swiss 18K rose gold and enamel open faced cylinder pocket watch with a figured automaton, the Dutch kitchen, circa 1815. Cylinder movement.
Plain case, glazed on both sides, multicoloured gold figured automaton on the back, the Dutch kitchen, polychrome enamel background. White enamel dial with Roman hours, outer minute divisions, winding shafts for the movement and automaton, steel Breguet hands.
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Diameter: 59 mm
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Weight: 127 g
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Signed: No name
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Only 10 pieces are noted today, mostly part of important collections and museums, a.o. the Patek Philippe Museum. Another piece is illustrated and described in E. Jaquet and A. Chapuis’s ‘Histoire et Technique de La Montre Suisse’ from 1945 and in A. Chapuis and E. Gelis ‘Le Monde des Automates’, Paris, 1928. All of the noted 10 pieces have some differences in the background decoration, the figures of the automaton are mostly identical. Some of these watches only have five motions, while others, like the present watch, have an automaton with seven motions.