This watch is almost identical to the regular type of silver watches, sold by pair to the Chinese market. It is fitted with the very rare duplex-lever escapement, invented by Jean Renaud, usually found on much later watches, it is almost certainly one of the earliest watches of this type, completed with this escapement. According to Ch. E Bobillier: Rapport sur l' horlogerie à Fleurier, 1873, Protocoles de la Société du Musée de Fleurier, Elie Jean Renaud from Travers, was the first watch jewels maker in the Val de Travers. He learned jewelling in London where he also learned how to make the duplexlever escapement which allow to have a centre seconds beating hand with a balance beating 1200 an houx. In Fleurier, several watchmakers working for the Chinese market used to sign the watches with a Chinese signature. Often, these signatures had nothing to do with their own name but were chosen to appeal the Chinese customers. We have not been able to find out the real name of this maker, bis Chinese signature is not recorded in A. Chapuis: La Montre Chinoise.