English repeater with automatic winding mechanism Circa 1820

Silver watch for the Ottoman market by Markwick Markam / Perigal
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An English gentleman’s pocket watch with quarter repeater and an early automatic winding mechanism by an oscillating weight, in a glass case; produced for the Ottoman market, circa 1820.
The case is silver with a glazed backside. The signed enamel dial has radial Ottoman hours and blued Breguet hands. And the oscillating weight winding movement is frosted gilt, with two hammers / two gongs, cylinder escapement, and three-arm ring balance.
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Diameter: 58 mm
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Weight: 176 g
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Signed: Markwick Markam Perigal, London
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Markwick-Markham was founded by James Markwick Jr. and his son-in-law Robert Markham. Markwick-Markham became famous for its watches, which were intended for the Turkish market. At the end of the century, Markham himself and his successors began to associate the names of other watchmakers with their goods destined for the Eastern market. The watchmakers concerned were Francis Perigal, Peter Upjohn, H. Story, Henry Borrell, John Johnson, Louis Recordon, Charles Dupont- each a respected watchmaker with his own production.
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Francis Perigal (also Perrigal) worked from around 1770 until his death in 1794. He was accepted into the guild as a free honorary member in 1781 and was considered a manufacturer of fine and technically sophisticated clocks. Perigal made a very early watch with lever escapement, which, due to an interchangeable case, can only be dated with the signature: “Watchmaker to the King”. This designation was given to him in 1784. Little is known about Perigal, but the few clocks still in existence are of high artistic and technical quality. Perigal’s son Francis continued to run the business.