Swiss calendar verge with polychrome enamel dial Circa 1790

Gold calendar verge pocket watch with painted dial
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A very rare Swiss gold calendar verge pocket watch with fine polychrome enamel painted dial, circa 1790.
Full plate gilt fusee movement, finely pierced and engraved bridge cock with steel coqueret, plain three-arm gilt balance with blue steel spiral hairspring. Silver regulator dial with blue steel indicator. Enamel dial with subsidiaries for time and date, Arabic numerals, surrounded by a very finely painted scene of an unclothed couple marking their names on a tree, gold hands. Winding through the painted dial. Plain consular case with substantial pendant and bow.
Enamel dials of this quality are very rare. The very finely painted scene shows a pair of unclothed lovers carving their name in the bark of a tree; in the background is a putto holding a torch.
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Diameter: 59 mm
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Weight: 114 g
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Signed: Meuron & Comp. á Genève
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Tardys states that Swiss watch and clockmakers Meuron & Comp. worked in Paris in the early 19th century. The company had premises in Neuchatel, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Paris and Geneva. They offered a wide range of horological instruments and specialized in the production of watches as well as clocks.