Manufacturer: Swiss Year: Circa 1805 Model Name: The White Mouse Material: 18k yellow gold, enamel, pearls, and cabochon rubies Dimensions: 57 mm. length excluding the tail Literature: For an almost identical example, please see Watches & Automata The Maurice Sandoz Collection by Bernard Pin, pages 228 to 233.
For a similar example, please see Patek Philippe Museum The Emergence of the Portable Watch, Volume IV by Peter Friess, page 153.
A very fine and extremely rare yellow gold, enamel, pearl, and cabochon ruby-set automata in form of a mouse, attributed to the workshop of Henri Maillardet