Swiss 18 carat gold beautiful miniature cylinder watch Circa 1890

Watch with Rococo enamel painting in Watteau style
–
A beautiful miniature gold and enamel watch with Rococo enamel painting in Watteau style, made by Maurice Ditisheim, la Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, circa 1890. The numbered case of this watch was crafted from 18 carat gold, has a cuvette with the owner’s name: L. Scherrer, Thionville and a back lid with beautiful Rococo enamel painting in Watteau style. The white enamel dial features an outer scale with dots for minute division, Arabic hour numerals and gold hands. The movement is fitted with a cylinder escapement.
The case is marked with the initials of the watchmaker.
–
Diameter: 25 mm
–
Weight: 16 g
–
Signed: No name
–
Watteau style
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a pivotal French Rococo painter from Valenciennes who shifted art from Baroque grandeur to intimate, elegant scenes, inventing the fête galante genre of aristocratic figures in idyllic, theatrical landscapes, often with underlying melancholy about love and life’s fleeting nature, influenced by Rubens and Venetian masters.
His brief career was marked by illness, particularly tuberculosis, leading to his early death in Paris.