Collection Tiffany & C^o., New York
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The work was absolutely perfect, especially the singing and extreme
complication and smallness of the mechanism the bird opening its beak
and turning its head when singing.
Louis Rochat the second son was in that line even better than his
brother; he conceived and executed the most curious and complicated
pieces, which have never been imitated since; for instance singing bird
watches and the famous Singing bird Pistols, where a bird appeared and
sang out of the barrel when pressing the trigger. A very rare specimen
of such pistol is in the Bernard Frank collection in Paris, one of the
most renowned collections in Paris.—
In 1829 Louis Rochat made a curious and complicated clock, for which he
was awarded by a special diploma, and appointed “Companion of the
Watchmakers and scientists of the city of Geneva.”—
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