Swiss gold, enamel and paste set calendar watch Circa 1770

Open faced verge with calendar Ph. Terrot & Fazy
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A fine and attractive Swiss 18 carat gold, enamel and paste set open faced calendar watch, circa 1770. Gilt finished movement, finely pierced and engraved balance cock. White enamel dial, small central hour dial with Arabic numerals, gold serpentine hands, framed by four subsidiary dials for month, date, day and constant seconds. Large case, polychrome champlevé enamel decorated bezel and pendant, the reverse with a painted polychrome enamel friendship scene depicting a lady and her young friend holding a poem in his hands, the applied paste set words a la amista (to friendship) in old Italian, on translucent Royal blue enamel background over engine turning, beneath a small rectangular polychrome enamel pastoral scene depicting a lonely walker in a woodland and lake landscape, framed by polychrome champlevé enamel vases with flowers on lilac and gilt background. Dial signed Ph. Terrot & Fazy, movement signed Jn. Fazy & Fils.
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Diameter: 65.5 mm
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Signed: Ph. Terrot & Fazy – Jn. Fazy & Fils