Fine English silver pair cased lever pocket watch Circa 1715

Silver lever pocket watch 
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A fine English silver pair cased lever pocket watch, circa 1715. A polished case, cuvette with a winding aperture. Silver dial with sector 12 hours in Roman numerals outer minute track, Arabic five-minute numerals and steel baton hands. Matte gilt movement, fusee and chain, lateral lever escapement, plain three-arm balance, flat balance spring, engraved single foot balance clock, index regulator on the backplate. Movement and dial signed.
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Diameter: 58 mm
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Thickness: 34 mm
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Signed: Charles 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, Charles Cabrier I, 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. Until 1759 he had a workshop at 79 Broad Street, near Finsbury Circus, he then moved to Pig Street (which does not exist anymore) near Threadneedle Street. 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 reputed clockmaker Charles Cabrier III.