Charming Swiss gold and enamel basket form watch Circa 1820

Gold and enamel basket-shaped verge watch
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A charming Swiss gold and enamel basket-form key wound verge watch with concealed dial, circa 1820. Key wound verge movement, chain fusée. White enamel dial with Breguet numerals, hinged within an oval case with enamel floral and foliate decorated bezel, revealed under a hinged lid of translucent peach enamel on an altering spotted ground, a raised panel to the centre with a pair of white enamel doves nesting eggs amidst flowers and leaves, to the gold dove and foliate surround, the side of the basket decorated with strips of red and golden translucent enamel on engine turned ground with blue enamel stripes, the bottom of the basket with cloisonné enamel flowers and leaves against a blue enamel ground. Case numbered.
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Dimensions: 28 x 35 mm
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Signed: No name
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Cloisonné is an ancient technique for decorating metalwork objects with coloured material held in place or separated by metal strips or wire, normally of gold. In recent centuries, vitreous enamel has been used, but inlays of cut gemstones, glass and other materials were also used during older periods, indeed, cloisonné enamel very probably began as an easier imitation of cloisonné work using gems. The resulting objects can also be called cloisonné.