Swiss mark: arrow through a snail

[Gan]

A well jeweled Swiss watch with a bar movemement and a lever escapement, made possibly ca. 1890, has an arrow piercing a snail as the only identification mark. This mark is punched on the movement's plate. Is anybody familiar with the mark? Thank you in anticipation.

[Gan]

A well jeweled Swiss watch with a bar movemement and a lever escapement, made possibly ca. 1890, has an arrow piercing a snail as the only identification mark. This mark is punched on the movement's plate. Is anybody familiar with the mark? Thank you in anticipation.

[Kate N]

Fontainemelon used an arrow piercing an upside-down apple which has its stem pointing downward on the left side. Is this the mark?

Kate

[Gan]

To: Kate N
Thank you for your suggestion. Most likely you are right. My mistake of seeing a 'snail' instead of 'upside-down apple, which has its stem pointing downwards on the left side' may be explained by the size of the mark, and - perhaps - by a not-very-exact use of the punch. BTW, where have you found your detailed description of this Fontainnemelon mark? Kathy Pritchard wrote only: 'an arrow piercing the apple' and 'an arrow through an apple'.

[Kate N]

When I wrote the post I had only seen an illustration of the mark in "Wristwatches" by Kahlert, Muhe and Brunner
Pritchard's "Swiss Timepiece Makers" also illustrates the mark--which is probably upside-down in "Wristwatches"--on page F-51, in a 1924 ad--as the ad shows a right-side-up apple with an arrow facing left, through it.

[Gan]

To Kate N
Thank you again. Your kind and prompt responce is greatly appreciated.