English gilt brass single-handed oval pendant watch Circa 1630

Gilt brass and silver pre-balance spring verge watch by David Bouquet
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A very fine, rare and small English gilt brass and silver pre-balance spring single-handed oval pendant watch, circa 1630. Gilt brass oval movement, engraved Egyptian pillars, fusee for gut line, short four-wheel train (second wheel missing) with six leaf pinions, verge escapement, steel foliot with turned rim, elongated cock with a small foot, pierced and engraved with flowering foliage, secured by a pin, ratchet wheel and click mainspring set up. Gilt brass oval dial, sprung latches, later applied silver chapter ring with Roman hour numerals with star half-hour divisions, the centre engraved with scrolling inhabited flowering foliage, outer border engraved with foliage, a female mask and mythical beasts and original steel tulip hand. Oval case, the silver band finely engraved with inhabited scolling foliage and the reclining figures of Venus on one side and Mars on the other, lower turned flower finial, tulip pendant with loose ring, hinged silver covers on both sides, the interiors engraved with wreaths. Movement signed.
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Dimensions excl. pendant: 37 x 28 mm
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Signed: David Bouquet Londini
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Another very fine watch in an enamelled case made by Bouquet is in the British Museum, and another, in the shape of a cross, is in the Louvre.
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David Bouquet, working from circa 1630, was a founding member of the Clockmakers’ Company in 1632, along with David Ramsey, Edward East, Simon Bartram, George Smith, and others.