English charming silver verge watch with windmill Circa 1807

Verge with subsidiary seconds in the form of windmill sails
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An English charming silver pair cased verge watch with subsidiary seconds in the form of windmill sails, circa 1807, gilded full plate movement, verge escapement, decoratively pierced and engraved balance cock, movement stop slide at 3 o’clock, fusee and chain, cylindrical pillars, signed and numbered Josh. Godfrey, Sudbury.
Dial with polychrome enamel center depicting a lakeside scene with a fisherman, sailing boat, a driver with his horse in the foreground, and a windmill with four gold sails forming the subsidiary seconds, outer white chapter ring for the hours with Arabic numerals and a minute ring, gold spade hands.
Silver inner case, the back with monogram ‘LB’ dated March 19, 1808, long cylindrical pendant, plain outer case, both cases with maker’s mark TB incuse for Thomas Bligh.
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Diameter: 60 mm
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Signed: Josh. Godfrey Sudbury
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Appropriately signed by a Sudbury maker, since the dial scene certainly reminds one of the Suffolk countryside, the present watch is an excellent and early example of this type of painted dial watch. The charming pastoral scene is dominated by the windmill, the sails of which form the subsidiary seconds.