MAURIS, London

Gilt metal onion watch with polychrome enamel cock representing "Roman charity" Case on hinge with double opening, the caseband decorated and chiseled with scrolls and flower motifs, the back richly decorated with foliage and acanthus leaves. Dial finely hammered with enamel cartridges Roman numerals for the hours and Arabic for the minutes, minute track enamel in a circle, decorated with a mythological scene in the center. Mechanical movement with key winding, rooster painted on enamel representing the myth of "Roman charity", spiral balance, regulating disc, escapement with verge, fusee and chain, signature on the plate "Mauris London". The myth of "Roman charity" is taken from a mythological scene in which a young girl, Pero (or Pera), secretly nurses her father in prison, Cimon or Mycon, who is condemned to die of hunger. (Traces of wear) Diam. 59 mm