Rare French silver verge coach clock with alarm Circa 1705

Silver verge coach watch by Estienne Baillon
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A rare French verge pocket watch, Oignon, with alarm, circa 1705.
Silver case with a rear bell and large lateral hinge, bezel with volutes and baroque strapwork ornamentation, reverse side with openwork decoration around the edge and four engraved cartouches with animals representing the four seasons. Enamel dial with radial Roman hours, central rotating alarm disc, and blued steel hands. Fine, firegilt, signed full plate movement with applied, florally engraved and pierced silver ornaments, chain/fusee, florally engraved barrel for alarm train, Egyptian movement pillars, one hammer, three-arm steel balance, and fine florally engraved and pierced balance bridge with mythological birds.
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Diameter: 58 mm
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Weight: 198 g
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Signed: Estienne Baillon à Paris
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Estienne Baillon (1678-1748)
Estienne Baillon was born 1678 in Rouen, as son of Jean-Baptiste Baillon. He became a master clockmaker in 1691 and moved to Paris in 1704, where he married Marie-Thérèse Blin in 1708. In 1708 Baillon also established himself at the “Galeries du Louvre”; in 1713 he became a citizen of Paris. He was the educating master of Jaques Thuret.