Swiss minute repeating watch with enamel automaton Circa 1900

Gold hunting-cased pocket watch by Hauser Zivy & Co.
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A very fine and rare, large, hunting-cased, keyless, gold minute-repeating pocket watch with unusual polychrome enamel automaton scene depicting a bullfighter on horseback, circa 1900.
18-carat rosé gold case with lavish engraving on both sides: front with a horse and picador; and back with a horse’s head. Enamel dial with enamel outer chapter ring with radial Roman numerals, a central automaton with polychrome enamel figures a bull nods its head at the hour, and a picador stabs the bull with his lance at the quarter-hour, subsidiary dial for the seconds and gold spade hands. Bridge movement, nickel-plated, stripe-decorated, two hammers, two gongs, 30  jewels, screwed chatons, wolfteeth winding wheels, screw compensation balance, blued balance spring. Cuvette signed. Accompanied with a copy of the Swiss patent.
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Diameter: 57 mm
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Signed: Hauser Zivy & Cie.
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This piece is a wonderful example of the fine quality Swiss watches produced specially for the Hispanic market. With its elaborately engraved case showing a military trophy, it is very likely to have been a special commission. As the watch is lavishly ornamented and has an extremely rare and unusual automaton scene of a picador fighting a bull in the centre, it can be assumed that it was created to the order of a nobleman.