3) A fine and rare gold enamel and pearl-set telescope with watch, music and automatons. Rotating procession of moving figures, horses and coaches before a fountain with glass spiral rods simulating jets of water. The only one known with its original presentation box. The case stamped S.N. for Sené and Neiser. The spring inscribed Carrisol 08 May 1808. Height 81 mm. Very few telescopes are known: 8 in total: -1° Collection Bernard Frank, Paris (Alfred Chapuis et Edouard Gélis, Le Monde des Automates, Paris 1928) Collection Suasso, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (C.Spierdijk, Horloges en Horlogemakers, Amsterdam 1973) -2° Collection H.Plisson, Paris (Alfred Chapuis et Edouard Gélis, Le Monde des Automates, Paris 1928) Collection Asprey ( Magic, Music and Motion, An exhibition of rare 18th and 19th Century Watches, Boxes and Automata from the Asprey private collection, England) Collection of Kenneth Goldman, USA -3° Antiquorum Hong Kong, 29-30 May 1989, lot 257 ( Purchased by the Patek Philippe Museum) missing part of the mechanism Patek Philippe Museum, Geneva, Switserland -4° Christie's New York, 28 April 1990, lot 128 Antiquorum Geneva, 22-23 April 1995, lot 502 ( Purchased by Lord Sandberg) Antiquorum Geneva 31 March-1 April 2001, The Sandberg Watch Collection, lot 46 (Purchased by the Sandoz Collection) The Maurice Sandoz Collection, Switserland -5° Sotheby's Parke Bernet A.G., Zürich 17 November 1976, lot 62 Collection of Lord Sandberg (Antiquorum Geneva 31 March- 1 April, The Sandberg Watch Collection, lot 320) Purchased by The Musée de l'Horlogerie et de l'Emaillerie de Genève. Musée de l'Horlogerie et de l'Emaillerie de Genève -6° Antiquorum Geneva 11 October 2003, A private Collection, lot 35 (Purchased by the Musée de l'Horlogerie et de l'Emaillerie de Genève ) missing part of the mechanism Musée de l'Horlogerie et de l'Emaillerie de Genève, Switserland. Forming a pair with n5° -7° Sotheby's Amsterdam, 8 October 1997, lot 410 ( The only one with signed enamels, J.M. for Jean-Jacques Maystre, pupil of Jean-Louis Richter) Private Collection -8° This one Private Collection

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