Description: Gilt brass, front wound, cylinder fusee movement (dial 34.1mm, 3.8mm between plates) with silver regulator dial and blued steel regulator hand, quite small ‘small eared’, two-footed cock with steel cockerel. Featuring very small round pillars. Enameled copper dial with no signature.
Provenance: Ex private collection A. Chapiro (F)
Published: Chapiro A., Taschenuhren aus vier Jahrhunderten, Callwey 1995, P. 160-162, Fig.: 338A
Additional Info:
Jean Arthur, ‘maitre horloger’ in 1757. Not much is known about this watchmaker, just a few watches made by him are known to exist. He also made skeletonized watches as early as Jean-Antoine Lépine. It is thought that he new Ferdinand Berthoud.
Antiquarian Horology 
