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Hong Kong, Jun 08, 2008

LOT 204

Diamond Star Barraud, London, No. 2982. Made for the Chinese market, circa 1800. Extremely fine and very rare, large, 18K gold, enamel, rose-cut diamond-set and pearl-set pocket watch with center-seconds.

HKD 110,000 - 140,000

USD 14,000 - 18,000 / EUR 9,000 - 11,000

Sold: HKD 168,000

C. Two-body, split pearl-set bezels, the pendant decorated with royal blue and white enamel stripes, the spring-loaded back opened by a push-piece in the band and overlaid with translucent royal blue enamel over wavy-line and pyramidal engine-turning, the center set with a silver mounted rose diamond-set star, the center set with a very large rose-cut diamond. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer dot minute divisions, Arabic 15-second numerals. Gold baton hands. M. 41 mm, full-plate, going barrel, cylinder escapement with brass escape wheel, three-arm flat-rim steel balance, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator, gilded cock mounted over the entire backplate fully engraved gilt with foliate decoration. Dial numbered, movement signed and numbered. Diam. 58 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3-55

Good
Movement: 3**

Good

Repair required, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-06

Good

HANDS Partially replaced

Notes

Barraud 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.