A brass bound rosewood cased two-day marine chronometer Barraud, London, mid to late 19 th century The circular four-pillar single chain fusee movement with Harrison's maintaining power and Earnshaw type spring detent escapement with wedge-shaped compensation weights to the split bi-metallic balance, helical balance spring and faceted diamond end-stone, the spotted backplate with blued steel spring set-up ratchet and movement pillar securing screws, the 3.75 inch circular silvered Roman numeral dial with subsidiary seconds dial, up/down register and engraved CORRECTED & ADJUSTED BY, BARRAUD, 41 Cornhill, No. 5184, LONDON to centre and with gold moon hands, secured by a screw-down bezel into a brass bowl with shuttered winding hole to underside and mounted via gimbals into a rosewood veneered three tier box centred with a shaped brass name plaque to the top, with brass capped corners over strap-bound edges, the sides with brass carrying handles and the front with vacant ivory panel over shaped brass key escutcheon, (top tier of box replaced) 18cm (7ins) wide. Paul Phillip Barraud (born 1752) worked with his father at first until his death in 1795 after which Barraud turned his attention more towards chronometers. Using the valuable experience gained whilst working on Mudge's timekeepers with W. Howells and G. Jamieson to good effect, he became very successful. After his death in 1820 the business was continued by his sons taking John Richard Lund, a former apprentice of John Pennington (who developed the auxiliary compensation balance weight to correct for middle temperature changes), into partnership in 1838.
A brass bound rosewood cased two-day marine chronometer Barraud, London, mid to late 19 th century The circular four-pillar single chain fusee movement with Harrison's maintaining power and Earnshaw type spring detent escapement with wedge-shaped compensation weights to the split bi-metallic balance, helical balance spring and faceted diamond end-stone, the spotted backplate with blued steel spring set-up ratchet and movement pillar securing screws, the 3.75 inch circular silvered Roman numeral dial with subsidiary seconds dial, up/down register and engraved CORRECTED & ADJUSTED BY, BARRAUD, 41 Cornhill, No. 5184, LONDON to centre and with gold moon hands, secured by a screw-down bezel into a brass bowl with shuttered winding hole to underside and mounted via gimbals into a rosewood veneered three tier box centred with a shaped brass name plaque to the top, with brass capped corners over strap-bound edges, the sides with brass carrying handles and the front with vacant ivory panel over shaped brass key escutcheon, (top tier of box replaced) 18cm (7ins) wide. Paul Phillip Barraud (born 1752) worked with his father at first until his death in 1795 after which Barraud turned his attention more towards chronometers. Using the valuable experience gained whilst working on Mudge's timekeepers with W. Howells and G. Jamieson to good effect, he became very successful. After his death in 1820 the business was continued by his sons taking John Richard Lund, a former apprentice of John Pennington (who developed the auxiliary compensation balance weight to correct for middle temperature changes), into partnership in 1838.
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