English octagonal Renaissance pendant watch Circa 1620

One-handed pre balance spring pendant watch
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A fine, one-handed, octagonal Renaissance pre-balance spring pendant watch, circa 1620.
Silver and fire gilt brass case, lavishly hand engravings depicting the Baptism of Jesus on the backside and Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane on the front. The sides decorated with angel’s heads, dogs and flower tendrils. Brass dial, firegilt, engravings of flowers and dogs, silver chapter ring with radial Roman numerals, the centre with an engraved couple wearing contemporary clothes, single blued steel hand.
Octagonal shaped full plate movement, firegilt, signed, gut/fusee, verge escapement, ratchet wheel set up with blued steel spring, two-arm iron balance without spring, florally engraved pierced balance cock.
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Diameter: 34 x 63 mm
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Weight: 84 g
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Signed: Robert Grinkin, London