German repoussé triple-cased repeating verge watch Circa 1720

Triple-cased quarter repeater Peter Krenckel
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A very fine German gilded brass and gold triple-cased quarter repeating repoussé verge pocket watch, circa 1720. Full plate movement, chain and fusee, two hammers, a verge escapement and three-arm steel balance. White enamel dial with Roman hours, outer minute divisions and Arabic five-minute numerals. The gilded brass outer case is covered with tortoiseshell decorated with studs, the 18 carat gold pierced intermediate case has a repoussé baroque-style volute frame showing a portrait of Diana, patron of the hunters, in the forest, the rim and bezel are open-worked decorated with portrait busts, putti and birds, the pierced and engraved inner case is also made of 18 carat gold and similarly elaborately ornamented with an open-worked rim and engravings of volutes, birds heads and a hunting scene depicting a snake, a deer and two hounds, a bell. Movement signed.
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Diameter: 54 mm
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Weight: 142 g
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Signed: Peter Krenckel Eichstätt
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Peter Krenckel was born in 1687 in Hattnau, Germany. He worked as an assistant to Wilhelm Köberle in Eichstätt and married Köberle’s daughter in 1714. Krenckel died in 1730.