Watch, Paris, Switzerland, ca. 1927

Watch in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (museum number M.66-2014), made in Paris, Switzerland, dated ca. 1927. The museum's brief description reads: Gold, ivory, enamel pendent watch with ribbon fob, made by Verger Frères for Lacloche Frères, Paris, ca. 1927. Museum description: Slim watch with ivory case inset on the back with a square gold plaque with rounded corners enclosing a scene of two Ancient Greek figues, a soldier seizing a girl by the hair with his left hand while holding a sword above his head with his right hand. An altar stands to the right. Engraved details are inlaid in black enamel. The gold figures are cut out and stand in relief from a black ground. The dial is engine-turned and silvered with black arabic numbers and blued steel hand. Jewelled nickel lever movement. Black enamelled winding knob. The watch is suspended by a gold chain which runs around the case, the two ends passing through an ivory bead above the watch before separating to run down the sides of a black silk ribbon fob until they meet a gold mounted ivory plaque centred by a gold plaque of two Ancient Greek figures, a priestess holding a ewer standing beside a warrior with shield and spear on his left arm and holding in his right hand a vessel from which he may be about to… The museum records it as Gold, ivory, glass, silk, measuring Length 230 mm; Width 44 mm; Depth 10 mm. These details come from the museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.