Swiss gold skeletonized repeating automaton watch Circa 1820

Gold skeletonized automaton watch
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A fine, rare Swiss unusual 18K gold quarter repeating skeletonized pocket watch with multicoloured gold automaton, Jaquemarts, circa 1820. Gilt skeletonized full-plate movement, cylinder escapement three-arm plain brass balance, flat balance spring, steel two-foot skeletonized cock with ruby endstone, index regulator, repeating work set on the backplate, repeating on gongs activated by depressing the pendant.
Case polished with reeded band, glazed gilt rimmed hinged cuvette with engraved laurel-leaf border.
White enamel dial with annular chapter ring, Breguet numerals, outer minute ring, the glazed centre skeletonized and with a very finely chased multi-coloured gold scene of a crowned Zeus sitting astride an eagle and holding a sceptre and the world, flanked by Pan and Procyon appearing to strike with hammers, an Arcadian landscape with a sheep below. Blued steel snake hands.
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Diameter: 60 mm
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Signed: Cugnier Leschot Geneve
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The highly unusual scene portrayed on this watch depicts Zeus as the King of the gods, Pan is shown to the right with his pipes, to the left is a dog from Greek mythology, Maera, who, by his prolonged howling, directed Erigone to the spot where her father, Icarius, had been murdered. Maera was placed among the stars by Zeus, where he was known as Procyon (‘little dog’) or Icarius Canis.