Swiss watch with mock pendulum, for Chinese market Circa 1905

Pocket watch with alarm and mock pendulum
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A Swiss pocket watch, alarm, mock pendulum made chromium-plated metal for the Chinese market, attributable to W. Zumstein or Ch. Rengger, circa 1905.
Chromium-plated metal, open faced, round-shaped pocket watch, with alarm. Dial with a visible mock pendulum visible inside an aperture in the base of a traditional “Neuchâteloise” clock.
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Diameter: 58.5 mm
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Signed: No name
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Watches with mock pendulum insert in a “Neuchâteloise” clock decoration. This type of watch seems to have been made by two manufacturers from the Val-de-Travers: W. Zumstein, Couvet, and Charles Rengger, Fleurier. They produced “novelty” watches with mock pendulum, specially made for the Chinese Market between 1903 and 1909; watches now so-called “La petite pendule”. Bibliography Chapuis, Alfred, La Montre Chinoise, Neuchâtel, 1919, pp. 214-215, fig. 183-184.