Swiss 18k yellow gold and enamel pocket watch Circa 1800

Gold open faced verge pocket watch
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A very fine Swiss, 18K yellow gold and painted on enamel pocket watch, circa 1800. Allegory of Love by Chevalier & Comp., Geneva. The back with a polychrome enamel depiction of a young lady with a dove’s nest in her lap and a cupid at her left under a tree on a translucent blue enamel over guilloché ground, blue and white diamond patterned enamel to the bezel. White enamel dial, Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions, Arabic fifteen minutes winding aperture at 2 with arrow mount. Gold fancy hands. A frosted gilt full plate movement with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement brass balance with flat balance spring, continental cock pierced and engraved with the letters Chevalier. Dial, movement and cock signed.
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Diameter: 51 mm
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Signed: Chevalier & Comp.  Genève
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Chevalier & Comp. Listed as watchmakers working in Geneva at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries. They specialized in gold watches with either enamel or pearl decoration.