English verge pocket watch with repoussé decoration Circa 1765

Gold pair cased pocket watch by Samuel & Robert Atkins
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A very fine English pair cased verge pocket watch with “repoussé” decoration “The Continence of Scipio“, circa 1765.
Two cases: outer case – gold and repoussé, with the depiction of “The Continence of Scipio“, engraved and chased volutes, scrollwork and large lateral hinge; inner case – gold and polished, with case maker’s punch mark “PM” (Peter Mounier), signed and numbered silver movement protection cap and seven-piece hinge.
Enamel dial with radial Roman hours and blued “Poker & Beetle” hands. Fire gilt full plate movement, keywind and signed, with applied florally engraved ornaments, chain/fusee, solid movement pillars, three-arm brass balance, fine florally engraved and pierced balance cock with mascaron and a chatoned diamond endstone on balance.
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Diameter: 50 mm
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Weight: 126 g
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Signed: Samuel & Robert Atkins, London
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The Continence of Scipio The Roman historian Valerius Maximus, writing in the first century AD, alleged that Scipio Africanus had a weakness for beautiful women, and knowing this, some of his soldiers presented him with a beautiful young woman captured in New Carthage. The woman turned out to be the fiancée of an important Iberian chieftain and Scipio chose to act as a general and not an ordinary soldier in restoring her, virtue and ransom intact, to her fiancé.