Swiss Enamel Painting Open-face Pocket Watch

Inventory Number: PW1906001

Made in Switzerland circa 1880, 34mm, 18K pink gold open-face case with enamel painting, depicts a scene that cupids are making the arrows in the woods.

White enamel dial with Roman numerals and outer ring Arabic numerals minute track.

Functions: hours and minutes. 

Painting on Enamel 

A vitreous substance whose main component is silica mixed with oxides (transition metals) that create a vast palette of colors. Enamel is used to decorate metal or other surfaces, like gold, silver, and copper.

A gold or copper plate is coated with base enamel then fired. The colors are in powder form which the enamel-painter dilutes as and when they are needed using an oily or semi-oily essence, before applying them with a fine brush. Each color is dried then fired before the next is applied. A work can be fired numerous times.