C(laude) Blochet

C(laude) Blochet, Paris, circa 1700. Fine gilt metal center-wound single-hand "oignon" watch. Double-body, bezel and back chiseled and engraved with inhabited foliage. Gilded, white enamel cartouches for Roman numeral hours, inner quarter-hour enamel ring. Blued steel "fleur de lis" hand. 48.3 mm ø, hinged gilt brass full plate with Egyptian pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain steel three-arm balance, short flat balance-spring, rack and pinion regulator, large Louis XIV cock pierced and engraved with inhabited foliage.Signed on the back plate.Diam. 58 mm.