Exceptionally fine French octagonal pendant watch Circa 1908

Elongated octagonal pendant watch by Lacloche Frères
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Exceptionally fine and rare French gold, platinum, amethyst, carved glass, diamond and pearl-set and painted on ivory lady’s pendant watch, circa 1908. Cross shaped movement, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with Breguet balance spring. Off-white ivory time indication on a painted violet background decorated with putti and birds, delicate Arabic hours and blued steel Breguet hands. Elongated octagonal case, led carved glass with repeated motif, a hollow octagonal shaped rim fitted with diamond-set platinum bezels fixed to a gold frame both with painted violet coloured ivory plaques, the back decorated with a muse and two putti, faceted amethyst covers, two pearl finials, a constituting winding/setting knob, diamond-set platinum loop for a chain, diamond-set platinum plaques running from the bezels to the finials. Case signed and numbered, movement numbered and signed by Verger, the miniatures signed by Paillet.
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Dimensions incl. the loop: 68 x 33 mm
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Signed: Lacloche Rue de La Paix Paris 2 New Bond St. London
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Lacloche Frères were manufacturers and retailers of high-fashion jewellery encrusted with precious gems established in Madrid in 1875. They opened a branch in Paris in 1898. Lacloche Frères was one of the major Parisian jewellers of the period together with Cartier, Boucheron, Mauboussin, Fouquet, Chaumet and Van Cleef & Arpels.
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Fernand Paillet (Niort 1840-Paris 1918) a pupil of Carrier-Belleuse, painted portraits on enamel and porcelain, as well as watercolours. He exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1873, and from 1879 to 1888.