Swiss silver pair cased oignon watch with alarm Circa 1700

Silver single handed watch with alarm
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A very fine Swiss, silver pair cased single hand watch with alarm, circa 1700.  A silver Oignon Alarm pocket watch, the back pierced, chased and engraved with inhabited foliage divided by four profile busts perhaps symbolic of the seasons, the bezel pierced and engraved with inhabited foliage intersected by floral cartouches. The inner case is deep back, the band pierced and engraved with inhabited foliage, a cartouche flanked by rampant beasts, winding apertures in the back, split bezel with engraved decoration.

Silver dial, radial champlevé Roman numerals, inner quarter hour ring, central silver alarm disc with Arabic numerals and gilt arrowhead pointer indicating the hours, blued steel fleur-delys alarm setting hand. Hinged, gilt full plate movement with divided Egyptian pillars, unusual blued steel decorated catch spring, fusee and chain, train with six leaf pinions, verge escapement with brass balance, single footed winged cock, one half cut away to expose the balance, pierced and engraved scrollwork backplate furniture, alarm with foliate pierced and engraved fixed barrel and steel train, striking a pork pie bell with a double ended hammer. Movement signed.
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Diameter: 58 mm
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Signed: Alexandre Meyrenne  Geneva
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Alexandre Meyrenne (also Meyranne or Meyronne) was a French Protestant from Grenoble who, after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685), went first to Lancy, near Geneva, and subsequently to Neuchâtel, around 1687. The son of a watchmaker also named Alexander Meyrenne, in 1698 Alexander Meyrenne the younger married Marie Girard.