{"product_id":"monnier-a-paris-18k-gold-painted-enamel-pocket-watch-c-1810","title":"Gold Watch Painted in Enamel from Bow to Caseback, c.1810","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA solid gold pocket watch dressed in painted enamel from bow to caseback, made in the age of Napoleon and still running today. Signed Monnier à Paris, hallmarked to 1809-1819, with every enamel panel intact.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA gold watch from the age of Napoleon, painted in enamel from bow to caseback and still keeping time. The back carries a hand-painted scene in the soft palette of the period: a couple in a wooded landscape, a cottage beyond, fired into the gold in full colour. The same blue, white and gold run over the bezel as a laurel band of enamel leaves, up the pendant and around the bow, so nowhere on the outside of the watch is plain gold left to speak alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIts date is not a guess. The pendant carries the French gold mark used only in the decade of 1809 to 1819, which fixes the watch to the Napoleonic era as surely as a printed year. It is signed Monnier à Paris on both the dial and the movement, and numbered 7766.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe white enamel dial carries Arabic numerals with the quarters numbered 15, 30, 45 and 60 in the outer dot track, under pierced rose-gold hands in the Louis XVI taste, and behind it sits a gilt full-plate movement with a cylinder escapement, a pierced and engraved balance cock, and a small silver regulator dial for fine adjustment. It is wound and set with a key, as watches of its date are, and it winds, sets and runs correctly on a standard key.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo centuries is a long life for painted enamel. It chips at bezels, wears at bows, cracks across casebacks; most survivors carry losses somewhere. This one does not: every enamel element is present, clean and unrestored, with only minor flea-bites to the dial under close inspection. The gold shows honest light wear, the hinges open and close cleanly, and at 51.8mm it is a generous size for its period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the enamel suite is shown close in The Enamel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Monnier à Paris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371084042579,"sku":"PW-0097","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/monnier-a-paris-18k-gold-pocket-watch-1_hero.jpg?v=1785270205","url":"https:\/\/estatecollection.nl\/products\/monnier-a-paris-18k-gold-painted-enamel-pocket-watch-c-1810","provider":"The Estate Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}