French gold verge watch with wandering automata Circa 1800

Unsigned yellow gold open faced pocket watch
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A remarkable French 18 carat yellow gold open faced verge pocket watch with wandering automata, circa 1800.
Round-shaped plain case. Eccentric white enamel time indication at 6 o’clock with radial Breguet hours, an outer minutes track and gold pierced hands, an aperture at 12 for the wandering automata, a polychrome enamel scene showing animals with on the right a dromedary. Gilded brass movement, stamped LV, key-winding, fusee and chain, verge escapement, monometallic balance and a blued steel flat hairspring.
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Diameter: 57 mm
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Signed: No name
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British hallmarks were sometimes faked or imitated. Especially in the 18th and early 19th centuries when English watchmaking enjoyed a reputation as the finest there was. Marks looking like British hallmarks were put into watchcases to make people think that a watch was English. Sometimes pseudo hallmarks were meant to look somewhat like hallmarks without trying to be out-and-out fake hallmarks and were stamped to make a case look more impressive.