Pascal Hubert à Rouen

Pascal Hubert à Rouen, circa 1690. Fine and extremely rare silver Louis XIV " oignon" clockwatch with 'Gloria's' regulator and without fusee. Double body, oignon, the back silver overlaid and probably originally leather covered with a pin-work decoration, the flange pierced and engraved with scrolled decoration. Silver champleve with Roman numerals, quarter and half-hour divisions, the centre engraved with scrolled foliage. Fine single blued-steel hand. Hinged gilt brass full plate with urn pillars, the going-train with fixed barrel, 30 hour power reserve indicator verge escapement, plain steel three-arm balance, short flat balance spring with straight line worm-screw regulator, fine giit brass Louis XIV cock pierced and engraved with inhabited foliage. Hour-striking train with gilt brass fixed barrel pierced and engraved with scrolled foliage, the silver count-wheel set on the back plate, striking on a bell. Signed on the back plate. In very good condition. Diam. 59 mm. Notes Pascal Hubert of Rouen, is another of the same family of clock and watchmakers tracing their origins back to Estienne ler. and Noel Hubert. Recent information would indicate that they were brothers, and both makers of some repute, as Etienne made a watch that belonged to Mary, Queen of Scots, and Noel was the founder of the Rouen Corporation. Pascal, the maker of this watch was the son of Estienne Ier. and therefor a cousin of Estienne II (see lot 21). He became master as Fils de Maître in No