396 - Viet, London. An early 18th century gilt metal and enamel cased pocket watch

Viet, London. An early 18th century gilt metal and enamel cased pocket watch Circa 1720 Jewelled full plate fusee verge movement, with pierced and engraved balance bridge, white enamel dial with Roman chapter and central river scene, winding through the dial, later matched hands, gilt metal case set inside and out with enamel scenes, the inside with a water mill, the outside depicting Psyche discovering the sleeping Cupid,movement signed Viet, London 42mm diameter Claude Viet was a Huguenot Orleans watchmaker who moved to Cornhill, London in the last part of the 17th century. He was made free of the clockmaker's company 1698, his daughter became apprenticed to him in 1714 and he became watch maker to Queen Caroline (wife to George II) until his death in 1734.