The gold inner case with band pierced and engraved with scrolls of foliage inhabited by birds, grotesque mask to the base, townscape beneath the pendant, the centre of the back with an engraved flower and aperture for winding.

The outer case is decorated with a repoussé scene depicting Apollo and Flora in a symmetric cartouche, four subsidiary scenes outside the central cartouche depict putti and alternate with pierced panels with scrolling foliage, shells and dolphins’ heads, the bezel with alternating scenes of birds and with pierced foliate scrolls.

Simon de Charmes and David, probably his son, were Frenchmen who became Free Brothers of the Clockmakers’ Company in 1691.