Dutch rare oval per-balance spring pendant watch Circa 1622

Brass pendant watch with one hand
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A Dutch rare oval pre-balance spring pendant watch with one hand, circa 1622.
The front of this brass and copperoval pendant watch with remains of fire gilding, has 12 windows for reading the Roman hours I-XII on the dial. The watch also features raised hour dots for reading the time at night. The centre of the brass fire gilt dial is elaborately decorated with an engraved rose and a Star of David consisting of two interwoven triangles.
It has an oval full plate signed movement, a gut/fusee, a verge escapement, a ratchet wheel set up with blued steel spring and a plain three-arm iron balance without balance spring.
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Diameter: 66 mm
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Weight: 123 g
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Signed: Gerardus Brand fecit Amstelredam
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Gerardus Brand(t) (1594-1659) was born in 1594 in Middelburg. He had his workshop in Amsterdam on the Rokin opposite the “Beurs”. Brandt made watches and clocks but was also recorded as a maker of sundials.
His son Gerard Brandt (1626-1685) was a well-known Dutch author, preacher, playwright, church historian, biographer and navy historian.