German silver repeating repoussé coach watch Circa 1740

Silver pair cased verge coach watch 
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A very fine and rare German, large, repoussé silver pair cased four train coach watch, circa 1740. With hour and quarter striking and repeating, date, alarm and silver and leather-covered outer case. Venus and Adonis by Johann Georg Puitner. The case was signed by Martin Langpour, Augsburg. Outer: two body, leather-covered, silver rims and pierced central rosette, sound holes around the bezel and back. Inner: two-body, silver repousse, pierced and finely chased with a scene of Venus and Adonis within an architectural scroll border, bezel decorated to match, loose ring pendant.
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White enamel dial with radial Roman numerals, inner alarm setting ring, outer date and Arabic five minute numerals. Blued steel pierced hands. A frosted gilt full-plate movement, conical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, engraved fixed barrels for the striking and alarm trains, brass three-arm balance, short balance spring, pierced and chased continental type balance cock, polished steel endplate, silvered numbered regulation dial with steel pointer, striking on a bell mounted in the back of the case, strike/silent lever and repeat push in the engraved gilt dial plate border. Movement signed.
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Diameter: 118 mm
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Signed: Johann Georg Puitner
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The dial is oxidized.
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Provenance: According to an old label in the back of the watch, this watch belonged to the Duchess de Berry (mother of the Comte de Chambord), widow of the Duc de Berry, son of the Comte d’Artois (afterwards Charles X of France). It is stated to have been made at Copenhagen and to have belonged to her father-in-law Charles X. Old collection number 8497 in ink on the inside of the bezel.