Very fine and rare quarter repeating Swiss pocket watch Circa 1810

Quarter repeating pink gold pocket watch
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A very fine and rare, quarter repeating, 18 carat pink gold pocket watch with a fine painted-on enamel gold dial. Made by Meuron & Cie, Neuchatel Circa 1810.
Three-body, Empire style and polished case with a reeded band and a bolt at 11 o’clock for locking the repeating. The gilt metal cuvette hinged to the movement ring.
Engine-turned gold dial with Arabic numerals on circular white enamel reserves, blue champlevé enamel flowerheads between, outer white enamel minute track, the centre finely painted on enamel with a young lady seated at a pyramidal monument and holding a garland of flowers. Blued steel Breguet hands.
Hinged movement with a gilt full-plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement plain brass balance with flat balance spring and a continental cock.
Dial, cuvette and movement signed.
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Diameter: 54.5 mm
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Signed: Meuron & Cie, Neuchatel
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The Empire style is an early-nineteenth-century design movement in architecture, furniture, other decorative arts, and the visual arts, representing the second phase of Neoclassicism. It flourished between 1800 and 1815 during the Consulate and the First French Empire periods, although its life span lasted until the late-1820s. From France, it spread into much of Europe and the United States.

The Empire style originated in and takes its name from the rule of Emperor Napoleon I in the First French Empire when it was intended to idealize Napoleon’s leadership and the French state. The previous fashionable style in France had been the Directoire style, a more austere and minimalist form of Neoclassicism that replaced the Louis XVI style, and the new Empire style brought a full return to ostentatious richness. The style corresponds somewhat to the Biedermeier style in the German-speaking lands, the Federal style in the United States, and the Regency style in Britain.