Swiss gold pocket watch with enamel cartographic décor Circa 1830

Gold and enamel pocket watch with open-face by Moulinié Frères & Co.
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A large, decorative, key winding, gold and enamel Swiss pocket watch with cartographic décor, circa 1830.
Round shaped 18 Carat yellow gold and enamel case. Case back with champlevé polychrome enamel showing the map of France with the names of towns, rivers, etc. Silver guilloché engine turned dial with Roman radial hours, outer minutes and Breguet hands. Gilded brass movement with going barrel, cylinder escapement, monometallic balance (probably in gold) and blued steel flat hairspring.
Dial and cuvette signed.
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Diameter: 53.6 mm
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Signed: Moulinié Frères & Co
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Moulinié Frères & Co., Swiss watch manufacture
Moulinié à Genève is proven to be around 1795 , founded by Jacques-Dauphin Moulinié. Jacques-Dauphin Moulinié and Jean-François Bautte registered a company in 1796 , which has existed since August 1, 1793 with a 9-year contract. On October 1st 1804 a new company, Moulinié, Bautte & Co., was established for 4 years with the addition of Jean-Gabriel Moynier , this time not only as a watch case manufacturer but for the watch and jewelery trade. From 1808 to 1821, when Moulinié retired, the firm was known as Moulinié, Bautte & Moynier . The sons Jean-François Moulinié withJacques-Dauphin Moulinié junior continued to work as Moulinié Frères & Cie.
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Watch with cartographic décor appears in Geneva, circa 1825-1830; watches with cartographic décor represent various regions or countries of the world: southern part of Europe, France, Iberian Peninsula, Prussia, Turkey, Bosphorus Strait, Brazil, etc. These watches follow some exceptional pieces made by Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747-1823) in the 1810-the 1820s (fourteen of his watches are now listed), with as décor: Bavaria, France, Iberian Peninsula, Bosphorus Strait, etc. Others are decorated with the plan of a city: Paris, St. Petersburg, Moscow, etc. The very consequent work of painting on enamel or engraving ?? geographical representation (mountains, rivers, lakes and seas or streets and monuments) with their names, as well as that of countries and cities ?? is either treated under a translucent enamel, said under flux (fondant in French), or champlevé (engraving + enamel). These watches ?? works of watchmakers, engravers and Genevan enamellers ?? are usually signed by major watchmakers-merchants from Geneva: Jean-François Bautte (1772-1837), Jacques-Dauphin Moulinié and his son Jean-François Moulinié (1796-1857), Jean-Gabriel Moynier (1772-1840) and his son Jacques-André Moynier (1801-1885), Alliez, Bachelard & Térond fils (associated between 1828 and circa 1845), Moricand & Degrange (associated between 1828 and 1835), Isaac Daniel Piguet & Fils (active after 1828), etc. Some are signed by a foreign watchmaker, retailer of these products, even apocryphal signatures repeating the name of famous watchmakers, such as Breguet (this is often the case for watches made for the Turkish market). An impressive series of these watches are now visible at the Patek Philippe Museum in Geneva.