French gilt and porcelain verge with nobility scene Circa 1750

Gilt and porcelain verge watch
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A French gilt and porcelain open faced rococo verge pocket watch, circa 1750.
The case is polychrome painted on the outside as well as on the inside, a nobility scene on the back, flowers on the inside, probably made in Meißen or Dresden. White enamel jewel-set dial, Roman hours and Arabic five-minute numerals and very fine hands.
Fire gilt full plate movement, verge escapement, pierced and engraved cock, silver regulator disc.
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Diameter: 44 mm
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Weight: 58 g
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Signed: Lépine Paris
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Meißen is a municipality and place 25 km northwest of Dresden, in the German state of Saxony. It is the Kreisstadt of the Landkreis Meissen. The settlement was formed at a bend in the Elbe and is first mentioned at the end of the 9th century. A Gothic cathedral arose on the steep castle hill in the thirteenth century, which was embellished in the nineteenth century with two iconic towers. At the end of the fifteenth century, the Albrechtsburg was built next to it, the first castle in Germany that was not built as a fortress, intended as a residence for the dukes of Saxony. In 1710, Johann Friedrich Böttger started in the Albrechtsburg with the manufacture of the famous Meissen porcelain, which more than anything else has made the name Meissen world famous.