Swiss gold musical and automaton cylinder watch Circa 1815

Rare gold and enamel musical automaton watch
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A Swiss very fine and rare, 18K gold and painted on enamel pocket watch with independent music and automata, circa 1815. Gilt brass movement, cylinder escapement, three-arm brass balance, flat blued steel balance spring, index regulator. Pinned cylinder musical movement with ten steel comb teeth and connected to the automata, activated at will by pressing a button in the band.
Case with stepped bezel, reeded band, polished back with stepped border.
The gold dial is eccentric, with black Arabic numerals, outer dot minute markers, and an engine-turned centre. Finely painted on enamel scene of a classical garden applied with multicoloured gold seated figures of two musicians, one playing the harp, the other playing the guitar.
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Diameter: 57 mm
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Signed: Henry Capt à Genève
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Henry-Daniel Capt, an early 19th-century Swiss maker of great repute, specialized in watches and snuff boxes with music and automata. He is credited as being one of the first in Geneva to use the musical mechanism with sur plateau form music work. In fact, he was known for employing all three musical systems: the barillet, sur plateau and comb and cylinder. From 1802 to 1811, he was in partnership with Daniel Isaac Piguet.