English large pair-cased coach clock with self strike Circa 1800

Silver coach clock by Markwick Markham & Perigal
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A highly attractive and large English pair-cased coach clock with quarter-hour self strike, circa 1800. A striking piece of impressive proportions in excellent condition.
Two cases: a silver outer case with a florally engraved open-worked outer rim on the back: and a silver inner case with an engraved and open-worked outer rim decorated with foliate scrolls and two engraved cartouches with a view of a town and military equipment; central engraved flowers are covering several trophies of war; rear bell, movement protection cap. Signed enamel dial with Roman numerals for hours, outer minute track with Arabic five minutes numerals, and poker and beetle hands. Full plate movement, chain/fusee, one hammer, three-arm brass balance.
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Diameter: 74 mm
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Weight: 354 g
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Signed: Markwick Markham & Perigal, London
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Markwick Markham produced many watches such as this for the Ottoman market. The”standard” hour dial with Roman and Arabic numerals is unusual with the Ottoman markings on the regulator disc.
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James Markwick, Markwick Markham & Perigal
James Markwick and his son James were fine watchmakers and worked in London.
The elder was apprenticed on 25 June 1656 to Richard Taylor and Edward Gilpin. He became free of the Clockmakers’ Company on 6 August 1666. Six apprentices were bound to him between 1674 and 1699. In 1673 he succeeded the business of Samuel Betts behind the Royal Exchange. Although he held office in the Clockmakers’ Company, he was irregular in attendance, ceasing to tend to its affairs after 1700. He worked until at least 1706.
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His son, James Markwick Jr., became free of the Company in 1692 by patrimony. The younger James Markwick was an eminent maker, Master of the Clockmakers’ Company in 1720 and a very early user of jewelled bearings.–
In later years he was in partnership with his son-in-law Robert Markham, who succeeded him using the trading name of Markwick Markham, which became famous for watches destined for the Turkish market. Not only did this notoriety encourage the appearance of spuriously signed watches, but at the end of the century, Markham, or his successor, associated the names of other watchmakers with their products intended for the East.
The makers thus found associated Francis Perigal, Peter Upjohn, H. Story, Borrell, John Johnson, Louis Recordon, Dupont. All were reputable watchmakers in their own right, selling other products under their names.
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Francis Perigal (also Perrigal) was active from about 1770 to his death in 1794. He was admitted as an honorary freeman of the Clockmakers’ Company in 1781. A maker of fine and interesting watches, he made a very early level watch which, having been recased, can only be dated by the signature: “Watchmaker to the King”. This appointment was conferred upon him in 1784. Little is known of Perigal, but the few surviving watches bearing his name are of considerable mechanical interest and fine quality. He was succeeded in business by his son.