Fine and rare French 18 carat varicoloured gold pendant watch Circa 1880

Gold watch with matching chatelaine and brooches
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An extremely fine and very rare French, 18 carat varicoloured gold hunting cased keyless pendant watch, circa 1880. With a matching chatelaine and breloques, probably made for a member of a Royal Family of the Balkans. A round shaped case with a polished case band and bezels. The cover is partly and finely pierced and chased with foliage, decorations within the centre a cypher including the letter “P” (maybe in Cyrillic alphabet).
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The case back is engraved in taille douce with foliages and garland motives. In the spirit of the creations made fashionable at this period by Alphonse Fouquet (1828-1911) or Frédéric Boucheron (1830-1902), and a gold polished cuvette. Black enamel dial, with gold painted radial Roman numerals and gold spade hands. Frosted gilt brass movement, bridge calibre with barrel, straight line lever escapement, compensated balance with gold poising screws and blued steel flat hairspring, polished steel endplate, index regulator. Signed on the cuvette and engraved inside the case back of the dedication Gemaine/26 Avril/1883.
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Diameter: 36 mm
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Signed: Charles Oudin  Paris
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Accompanied by a chatelaine, decorated en suite, with five breloques: a oval box (a locket that can contain a photographic or painting portrait or a plaited hair), a face-à-main (a pair of folding spectacles), a scent flask, a folding knife (with the blade signed Cardeilhac, Paris) with a folding nail file, and a pencil; coming also with an additional key Chain: ~ L. 290 mm. Provenance Referenced by the owner of the Collection as coming from a member of a Royal Family of the Balkans (maybe Romania).
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Charles Oudin, a talented and innovative watch and clockmaker, was a student of Abraham-Louis Breguet. Oudin excelled in creating watches with the Equation of Time feature and developed a version of this complication that could be integrated into Breguet’s souscription watches. By 1805, he had established his workshop at the Palais Royal, Galerie de Pierre. In 1819, one of Oudin’s Equation of Time watches was showcased at the Paris Exhibition.