Considered to be the best for mechanics, Parisian watches experienced their period of greatest splendor in the eighteenth century, when they were created in different shapes. Among these, the so-called animalier pendulums, characterized by the presence of figures of animals, bulls, rhinos, lions and elephants, inserted on bronze bases and bearing circular quadrants on the rump. A true specialist in this type of production was Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain.