Attributed to Moulinié, Bautte & Cie, Geneva, circa 1806.Magnificent and rare 18 ct. gold and enamel, pearl- diamond- and emerald-set, combined watch and perfume sprinkler in form of a flintlock pistol, made for the Near and Middle Eastern market, with matching key and later leather fitted box.

C. The grip of translucent scarlet enamel on a flinqué ground, the borders set with half pearls. Gold plates, finely chased with a dog on one side and a rabbit on the reverse, are framed with diamonds. The barrel of cobalt blue translucent enamel over a flinqué ground with a gold scroll design simulating damascene work, and finished by a ring of diamonds. The gold engraved hammer set with two large diamonds in the centre. The perfume is released through the pistils of a gold lotus flower with reand white champlevé enamelled petals, which is shot out of the barrel. The watch is concealed in the end of the butt, which is decorated with diamond surrounds centred on the front by a large emerald and on the back by an opal, two gold chains with loose ring. D. White enamel with radial Roman chapters, outer minute divisions. Blued-steel 'spearhead' hands. M. 15 mmo, gilt brass full plate, cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, plain three-arm brass balance, continental cock perced and engraved.Length 111 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, pages 408-409.

Amour et FidélitéUnsigned, Geneva, casemaker's mark coronet above P.G. incuse, circa 1790.Very fine and rare 18 ct. gold and enamel musical scent flask fitted with a watch with visible balance, made for the Chinese market, in original fitted box.

C. Three-body, both covers hinged, the front cover with two apertures; the lower one for the dial, the upper one for the diamond-set balance, painted with garlands of flowers and blue ribbons on a pale rose ground, the back cover centred with an oval medallion painted in translucent enamel over gold guilloché with a pair of nesting doves and a dog, symbolising love and fidelity, with a champlevé enamel frame, surrounded by flower garlands in the same manner the front, the edges with red, white ad blue champlevé scroll motifs and matching the band with a geometrical pattern of azure, white and red enamels with round white enamel dots simulating pearls, a scent container at the top covered with a pierced and engraved gold key, 'basket'-type hinged bow. D. White enamel, radial Roman chapters, outer minute divisions with five-minute Arabic numerals. Diamond-set 'Louis XVI' hands. M. Lyre-shaped, gilded and entirely engraved, going barrel, cylinder escapement, three-arm balance set with diaonds.Musical movement on the back side of the flask, gilt, fully engraved, pinned barrel playing by four hammers on four bells, five-wheel train, last pinion with eight-winged fly.Case stamped P.G. under a coronet.Dim. Length 108 mm, width 48 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, pages 386-387.

EveningAttributable to Jaquet-Droz, Geneva, No. 8, circa 1785.Magnificent and exceptional 18 ct. gold and enamel pearl- and ruby-set two-train singing bird watch, made for the Chinese market.

C. Double-body, Louis XVI, the bezels set with alternating rubies and half pearls and enamelled with paillonné decoration over a blue ground, the pendant and bow decorated en suite. The enamel back painted with a scene of a young man playing the flute for a young shepherdess, the scene taken from an engraving by A. Conte after a painting 'Evening' by William Hamilton R.A., and set against a blue translucent enamel ground over engine-turning and framed by an elaborate white and blue enamel and pallonné cartouche, with outer paillonné and polychrome enamel decorative borders, with rosettes within four arches of the white frame. The rosette just above the whistle slides open to allow for the sound to be heard. D. Small eccentric white enamel with Roman chapters and outer minute ring. Gold pierced hands. Polished gold dial plate with split pearl border, applied with an enamelled cornucopia set with half-pearls, a flower at its top with translucent green enamel leaves and half pearl petals.The enamelled singing bird is perched above the dial on an applied gold branch with enamel leaves and two pearl-set flowers. M. 22.6 mmo, mounted independently on the singing bird movement, going barrel, cylinder escapement, brass escape wheel, plain gilt three-arm balance, flat balance spring.Singing bird movement: 45.1 mmo, circular, gilt brass full plate, cylindrical pillars, the back plate relieved for the circular bellows, fusée with chain wound by means of a slide in the band, the animation of the bird driven by means of two cams fitted above the two song cams, between the lower wheel and the fusee. The bird's song is modulated by means of a whistle with sliding piston.The number 8 scratched on the back of the dial plate, on the case and the movement. 'Benson Lot Bell January 1796' scratched on the main spring of the watch movement.Diam. 61 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, pages 272-273.