The partnership between Louis Galopin and Samuel Darier was terminated on 5 March 1812 and each subsequently entered a makers mark on his own. Galopins mark was unusual for Geneva at this date as it showed his initials flanking a tulip above a pellet in a horizontal lozenge. Curiously he entered the same mark in Paris in 1819 from 27 rue Coquillière for la bijouteriede Genève, although when re-registering his business in Geneva in November 1815, he had chosen to revert to using his initials below a crown, the mark he had employed before his partnership with Darier had commenced on 1 April 1807.
It is probable from the date of the box and the style of the movement, although unsigned, that it was an early piece from the workshop of Piguet & Meylan, since the rim of the case is numbered: 49 in the way the firm numbered their musical boxes in later years

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