FRANCE, late 17th or early 18th century Onion watch. Chased and gilded brass case. Caseband decorated with interlaces and cartouches of scrolls or fleurons. The plain back is applied with a removable half-sphere, featuring an odalisque in a lambrequin frame. Gilded brass dial centered on a medallion with ironwork interlacing with two birds, with twenty-four cartouches and white enameled central scale, hour markers with blue-painted Roman numerals for the hours and black-painted Arabic numerals for the minutes. Fusee and chain movement, with chased cockerel with scrolls, flowering vase, and two birds on terraces, openwork to see the balance wheel. Plate signed "Pascal HUBERT A Rouen". Diameter: 59 mm. Cracks to several cartouches, some restored, dial to movement attachment to be reviewed; wear to gilding and decorations, down to the piercing on the reverse of the caseback; a few cracks on the caseband, play in the clasp; posterior bezel ring; some minor oxidation. With winding key. Pascal HUBERT (c. 1625-1701), French watchmaker, Master in 1649.