Silver Belgian striking and repeating coach watch Circa 1790

Large silver coach watch
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A fine silver Belgian quarter striking and repeating coach watch with alarm, circa 1790. Gilt, full plate movement, turned pillars, fusee with chain,spring barrels for the striking and alarm trains, polished steel hammers, verge escapement, brass three-arm balance, blued steel balance spring, pierced and chased continental type balance cock, polished steel V shaped regulator arm with index scale, striking and repeating on a bell at the quarters or at will.
Case polished and engraved with stylised foliate decoration, aperture for the repeat cord below.
White enamel, Arabic numerals, outer star minute markers, Arabic quarter hour numerals, sonnerie/silence lever in the dial plate. Blued steel Breguet hands.
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Diameter: 109 mm
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Signed:  Sarton A Liège
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Hubert Sarton was born in Paris in 1748. Around 1772 he became a pupil of J. Le Roy. Sarton settled in Liège, where he died in 1828, at the age of 80. In 1782, he published a “Description de plusieurs pièces d’horlogerie”. He made clocks with carillon, regulator escapements with compensation, clocks with decimal indications, self-winding watches, etc.