English pair cased repeating verge with self-strike Circa 1710

Silver and shagreen coach clock by Charles Cabrier
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An exceptional English silver and shagreen pair-cased quarter repeating coach clock of noble property with self-strike, alarm, date and month indicator, circa 1710.
A coated silver shagreen-covered outer case with sound holes, decorated with studs, a silver pierced and engraved inner case with baroque decoration, a rear bell and a pusher for repetition. White enamel dial with Roman hours, an Arabic five-minute outer track, a central engraved turnable alarm disc and poker & beetle hands. Full plate movement, chain and fusee, three barrels for striking and the alarm train, self striking the hours and quarter hours, four hammers, verge escapement, a steel balance, the openwork balance cock is finely floral engraved with an escutcheon plate in the centre, a prince’s crown above with two rampant lions on the sides.
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Diameter: 131 mm
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Weight: 1.600 g
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Signed: Cabrier London
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Charles Cabrier II is the second of three generations of London-based clockmakers all named Charles Cabrier. Charles is an unusual given name for a Huguenot family (Old Testament names were preferred, to avoid Catholic saints’ names) but was chosen for the first Charles Cabrier born in 1670 in Lyons, after his great-uncle and godfather Dr Charles Spon, a distinguished 17^th century Doctor of Medicine. Charles Cabrier II was apprenticed to his father through the London Clockmakers’ Company in 1719, made free in 1726 and served as assistant to the master from 1750 and master of that guild from 1757 to 1772. He married Rebecca Stone in April 1725 at St Bride’s Fleet Street. Charles and Rebecca’s first son Charles died in infancy, but their second Charles, born in 1729, later became the third clockmaker Charles Cabrier III.