French 20K gold and enamel verge pocket watch Circa 1760

Gold and enamel verge watch by Jean Arthur
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A very fine French 20 carat gold and enamel open faced verge pocket watch, circa 1760. Gilt brass full plate movement with pentagonal baluster pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement with micrometric potence adjustment, plain steel three-armed balance, gilt brass continental cock with polished steel endpiece, silver regulation dial. White enamel dial with Roman hours, outer minute track, Arabic minute numerals and original gold Louis XV hands. A Louis XV case, the bezel chased in a geometrical pattern and with painted champlevé enamelled flowers, the back with a fine and amusing painted enamel scene probably after David Teniers II, depicting an elderly gentleman receiving treatment for a bunion, outer chased rocaille and geometrical decorated border.
Dial and movement signed, the case with Paris Hallmarks for 1760.
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Diameter: 47 mm
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Signed: Arthur à Paris
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Jean Arthur became master in 1757 and is recorded as working in Paris from circa 1755 to 1810. There are 11 known watches by Jean Arthur and one clock, his work is very finely finished and he was an early and innovative user of the cylinder escapement.
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David Teniers the Younger or David Teniers II was baptized on 15 December 1610 in Antwerp and died on 25 April 1690 in Bruxelles. He was a Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, draughtsman, miniaturist painter, staffage painter, copyist and art curator. An extremely versatile artist known for his prolific output. Teniers was an innovator in a wide range of genres such as history painting, genre painting, landscape painting, portrait and still life and is now best remembered as the leading Flemish genre painter of his day. Teniers is particularly known for developing the peasant genre, the tavern scene, pictures of collections and scenes with alchemists and physicians. He was court painter and curator of the collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, the art-loving Governor General of the Habsburg Netherlands. Further, he was the founder of the Antwerp Academy, where young artists were trained to draw and sculpt in the hope of reviving Flemish art after its decline following the death of the leading Flemish artists Rubens and Anthony van Dyck in the early 1640s. Teniers influenced the next generation of Northern genre painters as well as French rococo painters such as Antoine Watteau.