German silver half hour and hour striking coach watch Circa 1740

Silver alarm coach watch
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A fine, rare and large German silver open faced on demand repeating manual wind alarm coach watch with half hour and hour strike made for Pius VI, circa 1740. The movement with a lever escapement. White enamel dial with Roman hours, an outer minute track, outermost Arabic five minute numerals and original, decorative hands. The inner case is pierced and engraved, the front bezel with an engraved text and sound holes, a leather outer case. Movement signed. Comes with a carved wooden watch stand.
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Diameter incl. outer case: 108 mm
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Signed: Frantz Anton Roth Augsburg
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The leather of the outer case is flaking.
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Pope Pius VI, born Giovanni Angelo Braschi in Cesena, Italy, on December 25, 1717, and Count di Falcino since 1759, was pope from February 15, 1775, until his death on August 29, 1799, in Valence, France. He is best known as the pope who opposed the French Revolution, which led to his deposition as the world’s monarch and his imprisonment and deportation to France. Pius VI served for 24 years, the longest pontificate to date.