BARRAUD'S SUMMER BOUQUET ENAMEL AND PEARL-SET GOLD
Barrauds, Cornhill, London, No. 9037. Made for the Chinese market, the case with London
hallmarks for 1813-14.
Very rare and fine, large, 18K gold painted on enamel, pearl-set pocket watch.
Three-body, "Empire" with fixed cuvette, flat reeded band, split pearl-set bezels pendant
and bow, the spring-loaded back opened by a push-piece in the pendant and painted on
enamel with a fine bouquet of flowers and foliage against a translucent red enamel background
over wavy-line engine-turning, the scalloped border decorated in champlevé enamel.
White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, large subsidiary seconds.
Gold "spade" hands.
48 mm. hinged, full-plate, gilt, going barrel, ringed cylindrical pillars, cylinder escapement
with steel escape wheel, brass four-arm balance, flat balance spring with Joseph Bosley
patented regulator, gilded cock pierced and engraved with scrolling foliage. Gilded dust-cap
with finely engraved foliate border.