Exceptional Swiss gold and enamel Rococo watch Circa 1780

Gold and enamel pocket watch with a visible balance wheel
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Exceptional Swiss 18K gold and enamel cylinder pocket watch with rococo painting in Meissen style, circa 1780. Signed and numbered full plate movement with cylinder escapement, very rare, fine and thin calibre, visible diamond-set balance wheel. The case with a fine polychrome enamel painting on the back, an imitation of Meissen porcelain, depicting a romantic figure scene The Gift. Original signed white enamel dial with a window for the diamond-set balance wheel, decentralized time indication with Roman hours, outer minute dots and Arabic quarter-hours, the front bezel opened by depressing the button in the gold pendant and very nice gold hands.
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Diameter: 54 mm
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Weight: 78 g
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Signed: Patry & Chaudoir
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The enamel of the pendant is restored and minor enamel repair at the rim.
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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.
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Reference 0028000