Swiss gold grande/petite sonnerie striking clockwatch Circa 1860

Gold quarter repeating clockwatch
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An extremely fine and exceptionally rare Swiss, 18 carat gold striking keyless clockwatch, circa 1860. A triple train quarter repeating, grande & petite sonnerie clockwatch with visible works. The case with a florally chased and engraved band and bezels, guilloché engine turned covers borders, case back with a taille douce engraved rococo floral and foliate border frame. Inside a lakeside painted on enamel partly in grisaille, showing the Mont Blanc view from Bellerive, near Geneva, a stone bridge in the foreground and a tree to the right, boat and ships on the Léman Lake Geneva and mountains in the background. The sky with translucent guilloché engine turned background imitating the rays of the rising sun, hinged gold cuvette with guilloché engine turned and engraved decoration. With two winding and one setting apertures, grande/petite Sonnerie lever, strike/silent lever under the bezel.
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Silver dial, champlevé radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions, engraved foliate decoration, gold Breguet hands and blued steel central seconds hand. Full plate, matte gilt brass movement, turned pillars, two barrels for the going and striking trains, ruby duplex escapement, polished steel three arm balance. Blued steel balance spring, polished steel escape wheel, lever for change from petite to grande sonnerie extending into the case at 1 o’clock, striking/silence lever at 10 o’clock, repeating train from the same barrel as striking, striking and repeating works mounted on the back plate allowing viewing the action; striking and repeating on two gongs; repeating activated by turning the button in the pendant. Signed on the cuvette.
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Diameter: 50 mm
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Signed: J. Liodet  Geneva
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The ébauche of the movement, typical of the Neuchâtel mountains area with its en vue visible works, can be attributed to Augustin Perret, from Le Locle.  The painting on enamel scene can be attributed to the workshop of Gaspard Lamunière (1810-1865), from Geneva, the greatest painter of this time. Liodet, J., Geneva Various watchmakers bearing the surname of Liodet are listed in Geneva between 1790 and 1860. Our watch is probably the work of Jean-Louis Liodet, watchmaker and merchant of horology, established place de l’Ecu (circa 1840-1850), then rue du Rhône 64 (mentioned in 1857), then Manufacturer of watchmaking and jewellery, rue du Rhône 162 (circa 1860-1870), Lamunière, Gaspard (Geneva, May 15, 1810 – Nice, April 6, 1865) Painter and enameller, practicing oil painting and painting on enamel, portraitist and master of enamelling workshop.
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Pupil of Joseph Hornung (1792-1870) and Jean-Léonard Lugardon (1801- 1884). He opened a workshop where he worked with his wife, Louise Franel (1819-1865), then his niece. He exhibited in Geneva at the age of 18 (Geneva, Société des Arts, June 1828, No. 21, Two copies of enamel portrait) and then a regular series of portraits painted on enamel or in oil. He has many pupils, both in the field of enamel painting and in oil painting: Françoise Chatel (1832-1874); Philippe Prochietto (know as Prochet, 1825-1890); Jean-Marc Baud (1828-1907); Jules Crosnier (1843-1917); Edouard Ravel (1847-1920).