Large French silver repeating oignon-type pocket watch Circa 1720

Silver repeating oignon-type watch by Pascal Hubert
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A very fine and rare, pair-cased French key-winding quarter repeating oignon-type pocket watch with open face, circa 1720.
Full plate, fire-gilded brass movement, Egyptian pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, monometallic balance with three arms, and blued steel flat early hairspring, pierced and engraved gilded continental Louis XIV cock, silver regulator disc. White enamel dial with Roman radial hours, outer minutes track with Arabic five minutes numerals, original gilded brass pierced hands, and one horological complication: – Quarter-repeater on one bell. Round-shaped silver cases engraved in taille-douce (fine-cut) with the portrait of a lady and a gentleman inside cartouches.
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Diameter: 58 mm
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Signed: Pascal Hubert Rouen
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The important Hubert family of watchmakers was recorded in Rouen as early as 1612. Pascal Hubert was born around 1625. According to Tardy, he was appointed master in 1649. He worked with Jacques Gloria senior, one of the first watchmakers who produced watches without a fusee. Pascal Hubert probably died around 1701.