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Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Nov 25, 2006

LOT 62

?Gold Paillon Rosette? Barrauds, Cornhill, London, No. 9110. Made for the Chinese market, circa 1820. Very fine and rare, large, 18K gold, enamel and pearl-set pocket watch.

HKD 150,000 - 200,000

USD 20,000 - 26,000 / EUR 15,000 - 20,000

Sold: HKD 188,800

C. Three-body, "Empire" with fixed cuvette, coin-edge band, split pearl-set bezels pendant and bow, the spring-loaded back opened by a push-piece in the pendant and overlaid with translucent royal blue enamel over wavy-line engine-turning, the center with a varicolored gold paillon rosette, paillon border to match. Gilded dust-cap with finely engraved foliate border. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, large subsidiary seconds. Gold "spade? hands. M. 50 mm, hinged, full-plate, gilt, ringed cylindrical pillars, going barrel, cylinder escapement with steel escape wheel, brass four-arm balance, flat balance spring with Joseph Bosley patented regulator, gilded cock finely pierced and engraved with scrolling foliage. Dial numbered, movement signed and numbered. Diam. 62 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 2

Very good
Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

For a discussion of watches made for the Chinese market, see pages 196 - 201. Barrauds The first watchmaker of the family was Francis-Gabriel (1727-1795). His sons Paul-Philippe (1752-1820) and John (dates unknown) were working with their father by 1780. In 1796 he entered into a partnership with William Howells and George Jamison, to make chronometers based on Mudge's original design. Howells, who had been Mudge's junior worker, brought with him important technical knowledge. Alongside Barraud's production of chronometers, a range of other clocks and watches were produced, and a major business was the exportation of plain and musical clocks to China and India. This was continued by their successors and eventually led to the establishment of a branch in Calcutta. In 1838 the chronometer maker John Richard Lund was taken into partnership, and with the death of the last horological Barraud, Hilton Paul, in 1880, the business reverted entirely to the Lund family.