17th-C Brabant Longcase Clock of Noble Provenance With Coat of Arms

17th-Century longcase clock of noble provenance, Brabant region (now Belgium) with the coat of arms of the Provincial Governor and his Wife.
Case of waxed oak, with a round window for view of the pendulum wit a gilded lead bob in the shape of a sunburst.
Brass dial with chafed and ormolu spandrels, the chapter ring made of real silver (!). The subsidiary seconds ring in silvered brass, with a round aperture for the moonphases.
Below left a window for the days of the week (« Iours de la Sepmaine ») and the days spelled in Dutch (Woen, Donder, Vrijd…), in the middle a window for the age of the Moon (“Aage de la Lune”, 1 to 29), to the right a window for the days of the month (« Iours du mois », 1 to 31). The three hands in blued steel, the minute hand with the initial S, possibly a dicreet signature of the maker. Below the coat of arms for the wedding of Libert-François Christyn and Isabelle Walravens (1670).
High-quality movement between two brass plates and four turned pillars, low ancher escapement and rear hourly countwheel strike on a vertical bronze bell.
« Libert-François Christyn, Vicomte de Vuere (Tervuren) et Duysbourg, Seigneur de Boutershem, Nederheyn, Loebene (Louvain), Eygendonc etc, Conseiller du Roy en son Conseil Souverain de Brabant, et en celuy de son Admirauté Suprême dans les Pays-Bas. (1639 – 1717).
Dame Isabelle Françoise Walraven, Vicomtesse de Vuere et Duysbourg, Dame de Boutershem, Nederheym, Eygendonck etc. »