Dutch silver pocket watch with repeater and enamel painting Circa 1690

An exceptional pocket watch with a verge escapement
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An exceptional pocket watch with repeater and enamel painting, made by Johanes Van Ceule Le Jeune, in the Hague, the Netherlands, circa 1690. The numbered open faced pierced case with a bell was crafted from silver and has  three different grotesque faces represented on the dust ring. The dial has a unique multi coloured enamel  representation of a cloud with putto, a naked lady and an owl, Arabic hour numerals, the original hour hand but the  minute hand is missing. The full plate movement has a very rare early verge escapement, an early cock with grotesque face and above it an angel with a crown and a squirrel and hours and quarters on bell repeater.

Dial and movement are signed.
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Diameter: 49 mm
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Weight: 121 g
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Signed: J. van Ceule le Jeune Hague (movement)
A. Meyer (dial)
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van Ceulen
Jan van Ceulen (the younger) was born in 1677 as the son of Johannes van Ceulen the elder. Like his father, he was also a watchmaker, and they worked together until his father’s death in 1715. He was head of the Hague watchmakers’ guild. This watch is probably unique in its design. The early watch, made around 1690, was given its current, more modern enamel dial in the 19th century. This dial is not a conventional dial, but a masterpiece by the famous enamel painter Alfred Meyer (Paris 1832-1904). It bears his signature.