A rare Swiss polychrome painted tinplate figural 'clock pedlar' timepiece Unsigned, mid to late 19th century The miniature spring-driven movement with anchor escapement and silk suspension for the long pendulum, the circular white enamel Roman numeral dial set into a case modelled as a wall clock with foliate spandrels and ornithological painted break-arch dial supported on the chest of a figure in broad rimmed hat, blue coat, red waistcoat and breeches with further dummy clock movement on his back and carrying a bundle of pendulums in his left hand, stood on original oblong burr maple veneered base now mounted onto a conforming ebonised plinth, 37cm (14.5cm) high excluding later ebonised plinth; 39.5cm (15.5ins) high overall. Although the current lot is unsigned other identical examples signed Leser, Bern are known. The attention to detail and quality of the metalwork of the figure is particularly noteworthy.