English 18K pink gold hunting cased cabriolet watch Circa 1830

Gold lever cabriolet watch
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A fine and unusual English 18K pink gold hunting cased cabriolet pocket watch, circa 1830. Reversible, enabling one to use the watch as an open faced or as a full hunter. The case foliate pierced and engraved, a scene depicting a huntsman in a landscape with two gundogs on the back, the interior engine-turned, the inner case engraved with flowers and foliage.

Hinged gold cuvette with engine-turned border. White enamel dial with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds and gold fleur-de-lys hands. Frosted gilt three-quarter plate movement, 13 jewels, partly in screwed chatons, fusee with chain, Improved Detached lateral lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, flat blued steel balance spring, diamond endstone, index regulator. Dial signed and numbered, movement signed, case numbered and with faux English hallmarks.
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Diameter:  56 mm
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Signed: Lewis Samuel 4 Lord Street Liverpool
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Improved detached lever refers to the detached form of lever escapement patented by Edward Massey in 1815 and developed to the form seen in this watch by the 1820s. The present watch is unusual in that the case is Swiss-made and almost contemporary to the watch. It is probable that the original owner led an outdoor life and had the present cabriolet case made for practical purposes to protect the watch. The cabriolet form of a reversible case is almost unknown in English watchmaking.