English delightful silver verge with painted dial Circa 1817

A silver verge with polychrome enamel painted dial
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An English delightful silver pair cased verge watch with polychrome enamel painted dial, circa 1817, gilded full plate movement, verge escapement, pierced and engraved masked balance cock, diamond endstone, Bosley type regulation, fusee and chain, cylindrical pillars, signed S. Samuel, Louth.
White enamel dial, the numerals spelling James Lymen with a radiant sun at 12 o’clock and a crescent moon at 6, outer minute ring, the dial with polychrome enamel painted scene of a pastoral scene, gold skeletonized spade hands.
Plain silver inner and outer case, winding aperture to the inner case back, regency pendant, both cases with maker’s mark HH incuse probably Hannah Howard, Coventry.
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Diameter: 55 mm
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Signed: S. Samuel Louth
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The scene to the dial’s center, painted in a naïve manner, is loosely after ‘Evening’ by William Hamilton (1751-1801). The hour chapters are made up of the 10 letters of the name James Lymen with a radiant sun at 12 and crescent moon at 6 o’clock. See: Terence Camerer Cuss, The English Watch 1585-1970, 2009.

A Samuel Samuel is listed as working in Louth, Lincolnshire during this period.