German fire gilt one handed pendant watch with self strike Circa 1600

Fire gilded late Renaissance watch
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A large Southern German fire gilded brass one handed late Renaissance pendant watch with hour self strike, circa 1600. Full plate movement, two barrels, one hammer, stack freed, foliot and hog’s bristle. Gilt florally engraved dial with Roman hours and Arabic 24 hours. Florally engraved and pierced case, rear bell.
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Diameter: 55 mm
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Weight: 200 g
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Signed: No name
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The present watch is an excellent example of an early German watch with hour strike and stack freed. The stack freed mechanism consists of a cam and a spring arm and exerts a retarding force on the mainspring. The design was probably invented in the 16th century in Nuremberg and used mainly in the Southern regions of Germany. The stack freed was much thinner than the chain and fusee construction and thus allowed the production of flatter watches.