German gold with red enamel verge pocket watch Circa 1760

Gold open faced pocket watch by Hirschauer 
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An important and extremely rare Dresden gold and monochrome enamel pocket watch, The Proposal, in the style of Meissen porcelain, circa 1760. Camaïeu de Rose (Shades of Rose). The front bezel with red camaïeu rococo motif, the back with a red camaïeu scene depicting a couple in front of an altar, on the inside a polychrome enamel painting showing a wolf. White enamel dial, Breguet hours, outer minute divisions, winding aperture and gold Louis XV hands. Hinged, gilt brass full plate movement with twisted pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement with micrometric potence adjustment, three arm brass balance, flat balance spring, pierced foliate continental cock with steel end plate.
Movement signed.
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Diameter: 46 mm
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Weight: 70 g
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Signed: Hirschauer Dresden
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Camaïeu is a technique that employs two or three tints of a single colour, other than grey, to create a monochromatic image without regard to local or realistic colour.
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Meißen is a municipality and place 25 km northwest of Dresden, in the German state of Saxony. It is the Kreisstadt of the Landkreis Meissen. The settlement was formed at a bend in the Elbe and is first mentioned at the end of the 9th century. A Gothic cathedral arose on the steep castle hill in the thirteenth century, which was embellished in the nineteenth century with two iconic towers. At the end of the fifteenth century, the Albrechtsburg was built next to it, the first castle in Germany that was not built as a fortress, intended as a residence for the dukes of Saxony. In 1710, Johann Friedrich Böttger started in the Albrechtsburg with the manufacture of the famous Meissen porcelain, which more than anything else has made the name Meissen world famous.