A very similar watch decorated by Champod with a tiger fighting an elephant is illustrated in Chapuis??La Montre Chinoise? on the color plate following page 192, strongly suggeseting that the enamel of this watch was painted by the same artist. P.-Amédée Champod (1834-1913) Along with John Graff, he was one of the most celebrated enamel painters of the second part of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, specializing in hunting scenes. In his autobiography, which has been preserved by his descendants, he writes that he wanted to be a painter of large format scenes, but that economic realities led him to painting on enamel which he studied with Huguenin, Sauerländer, and Charles Glardon, who had the strongest impact on his future style. Champod dropped out of school at eleven and at sixteen began working. At the Paris Exhibition of 1900 Champod received a silver medal. His technique was outstanding, the sense of dynamics in his compositions was unri-valed. This watch, in remarkably good condition, with a Chinese signature, is an excellent example illustrating the popularity of Indian scenes in China, where the elephant is a symbol of wisdom and of moral and spiritual strength.