Yes - so the name Kettle carried over from the fob watch (known then just as a fob) to the wrist watch.
I did google cockney rhyming slang and it is amazing how many articles on line are wrong with all sorts of things. One said something like "not all cockney slang rhymes -for example the police are called the sweeney".
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