Watch with gold case decorated with figures and landscapes in painted enamel, France, 1640-60, with a later movement by J. Bernard Vrythoff, The Hague, ca. 1720-60. Gold watch. The case is enamelled in polychrome on the back with a male and a female figur

Watch with gold case decorated with figures and landscapes in painted enamel, France, 1640-60, with a later movement by J. Bernard Vrythoff, The Hague, ca. 1720-60. Gold watch. The case is enamelled in polychrome on the back with a male and a female figure with a cupid, and on the front with two cupids and a female figure holding an arrow directed towards a heart. Around the side of the case are landscapes vignettes. Inside the back of the case is a landscape with a seated man with a large burden on his back. On the reverse of the lid is a man fishing in a landscape. The centre of the dial is painted in enamel with a seated woman with her left hand extended. A cupid in the foreground holds a drawn bow with an arrow pointing towards her heart. White enamel chapter ring with Roman numerals and half-hour marks. Gilt-metal hands. Brass movement plates. Cylindrical pillars. Fusee and chain. Verge escapement. Balance wheel and spring, with regulator of Tompion type, with rotating silvered dial, numbered 1 to 6. Bridge balance-cock with mock pendulum aperture: engraved numerals 1 to 6 visible through the aperture. Two steel hands are screwed on top of the cock at the ends of the mock pendulum aperture. The cock is cast with a naked cupid setting fire to a heart by concentrating the rays of the sun with a magnifying glass. The rim of the cock outside the pendulum aperture is engraved 'HOWELL HY VER AF IS'. Pierced and engraved scrollwork applied to the top plate and the maker's name.  Gold with painted enamel; gilt-metal and steel movement, silver regulator dial.