French decorative gold enamel digital pocket watch Circa 1830

Gold enamel open faced digital pocket watch by Breguet
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A decorative, French flat gold enamel pocket watch with digital time display and central seconds, circa 1830.
Bridge movement, cylinder escapement, brass balance. Silver engine-turned dial with apertures for the hours and the minutes, outer seconds track with fifteen seconds numerals, and central second hand. Polychrome enamelled 18K gold case. Case back polychrome enamelled in champlevé with decoration en taille d’épargne of friezes and foliage.
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Diameter: 40 mm
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Weight: 38 g
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Signed: Breguet à Paris
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Digital – Numérique
A system controlled by the watch movement to indicate the time. An alphanumerical (or numerical) display uses letters and numerals (or just numerals) to show the time. An analogue display gives the time using a moving indicator (hand) on a scale of hours, minutes and seconds (dial).
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Taille d’épargne, French for sparing cut.
A variation from champlevé decoration in which engraved lines in the metal base are filled with opaque enamel, without any variation in the depth of the lines, such as in base taille enamelling. It was often used in inexpensive mourning jewellery in the 18th century to decorate some bangles, chatelaines, and watch cases.