French small gold and enamel verge pocket watch Circa 1780

Gold verge decorated with painted-on enamel scene by Vauchez
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A fine, small gold enamel French verge pocket watch, circa 1780.
The back shows a very finely painted enamel medallion on the translucent pink-coloured ground in a paste frame: a young girl at the altar of love, with a pair of turtle-doves at her feet. Around the medallion is a wide sablé gold ground with applied translucent enamel leaf scrolls and paste decoration.
18-carat pink gold, enamel, paste-set case. White enamel dial with Roman numerals, outer dot minute divisions with five-minute Arabic numerals, winding aperture at 2 and Breguet hands. Hinged, frosted gilt full plate movement with flared cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, and three-arm brass balance.
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Diameter: 40 mm
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Weight: 46 g
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Signed: Vauchez à Paris
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French watchmaker Vauchez (Vaucher!)
He worked in Paris around 1800 and was probably a descendant of Daniel Vaucher. Daniel Vaucher was born in Fleurier and moved to Paris in 1760, where he became a master-watchmaker. His wife and 6 children stayed in Fleurier; the children later followed their father to Paris. Jonas-Frédéric Vaucher, Jean-Henri-David Vaucher, François Vaucher, Jean-Jacques Vaucher, Samuel Vaucher and Isabelle-Salomé Vaucher became watchmakers themselves and the wonderful watches the family created were usually signed with “Vauchez en la Cité”. Quite possibly an “r” was here mistaken for a “z”.