French gold pearl set watch with musical movement Circa 1800

Miniature gold and enamel pocket watch by Joseph Marie Revel
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An important, French miniature gold enamel lady’s pocket watch with musical movement, studded with half pearls The Young Bacchus, circa 1800.
18 Carat rose gold case, on the back translucent cobalt blue enamelling on the engine-turned ground, with central polychrome enamel scene: young Bacchus sitting in a wheelbarrow, pushed by a putto; the bezels on both sides studded with half pearls, a signed and numbered dome, and a reeded band. Two-coloured gold dial with inlaid Arabic Breguet numerals on the chapter ring, a polished centre with an engraving of a putto and a butterfly on a seesaw, and blued spade hands. And a keywind, frosted, gilt bridge movement with a barrel for going train, a pinned barrel for musical movement with vibrating blades, and a three-arm ring balance.
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Diameter: 34 mm
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Weight: 40 g
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Signed: Joseph Revel à Paris
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There are only very few ladies’ pendants watches with a musical movement of such a small size. This timekeeper is also in exquisite condition and the quality of the enamel painting and the engraved scene on the dial is outstanding.
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Joseph Marie Revel, Parisian watchmaker, watch dealer and jeweller.
The Revel company was founded by Joseph Marie Revel in Paris. In 1774 Joseph was based in (Rue) la Fidelite. In 1775 he was named master, and then moved to the Vieille rue du Temple and stayed there until 1783. A little later he was located in the Rue Richelieu, Palais Royal No.118 “Galerie de Valois” until 1790 “Galerie de Pierre” du Palais Egalite, later renamed la rue Egalité around 1800 . From 1804 to 1806 the company was active in the Palais Tribunal, renamed the Palais Royal. Revel bought a medallion watch (A La Breguet) for Breguet at Antiquorum auctions, and a Revel watch made by Urban Jürgensen will be auctioned. You can often find French clocks at various auction houses. In the “Waddesdon Manor” collection there is an original advertising card from Revel, Galerie du Palais Royal. Vieille du Temple. Most of the time the watches are simply signed with “Revel”.
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Joseph Marie revel was named master watchmaker on August 12, 1775, and was married to Félicité Regnard. On January 28, 1797, Joseph Revel bought the “Du Trou Moreau” farm in Villepreux, a little west of Versailles. “Du Trou Moreau” dated from 1571 is 148 hectares and was sold for 211,208 livres. This purchase makes it clear that Joseph Marie Revel was wealthy.
Even after Joseph Marie Revel died in 1811, the company continued to run until around 1870.