The next thing I did was to cut a dial shelf into the centre body of the watch case, i.e. into the ring I'd just made. I was designing as I went! As it turns out this is not the way the watch progressed but it did give me a wonderful way to display the cloisonné frog, or any circular enamel piece for that matter!

I put the ring back onto the lathe and cut out the shelf just wide and deep enough for the cloisonné frog disc to sit;

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The frog sits very nicely in the ring

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The depth being just enough to sink the thickness of the silver disc below the surface, as you can see from this angled view,

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I could use a ring like this as a mounting frame for such pieces as these in the future. I would have to glue the disc into the frame, though, as there is nothing to keep it in except gravity.