English silver open faced key wound verge pocket watch Circa 1700

Silver gentlemen’s watch by John Bushman
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A museum quality English silver open faced key wound pocket watch, circa 1700. The movement with a verge escapement and a very elaborate engraved balance cock with arabesques and birds of paradise. Silver chased champlevé dial with Arabic hours, an outer minute track, outermost Arabic five minute numerals, the center decorated and with a small aperture for indication of the date, blued steel hands. A chased and engraved silver case. Dial signed, case and movement with a matching number.
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Diameter: 56 mm
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Weight: 142 g
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Signed: Bushman London
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John Bushman (also Buschman or Buschmann) was born in 1661 in Augsburg, Germany as the son of the renowned clockmaker Johann Bushmann II. In circa 1687 he moved to London where in 1690, he got married as Johannes Bushman to 23-year-old Mary Wyatt at Christ Church. In 1692 he became a Free Brother of the Clockmakers’ Company and was made an assistant in 1720. Bushman presumably worked until 1725.