Rare English gold minute repeater with calendar Circa 1880

Fine gold minute repeating calendar chronograph hunting cased watch
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A fine and rare English yellow gold minute repeating calendar chronograph hunting cased watch, circa 1880. Brass gilt 3/4 plate English lever escapement movement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with peripheral timing screws and blued balance with terminal curb, index regulator, diamond endstone, chatons for the lever, the escape wheel and the fourth wheel, shuttle mechanism to set the time, 18 Carat yellow gold cuvette. White enamel dial, thin Roman numerals, subsidiary dial for the day surrounded by retrograde date indication, fan-form aperture for the moon phases, aperture for month, outer minute track with 1/5 second indication for the chronograph, numbered every 5 minutes, 18 Carat yellow gold demi bassine case, fluted band with a slide for the repeater and pusher for the chronograph and the setting, movement and dial signed, case, dial and movement numbered.
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Diameter: 57.5 mm
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Signed: Barraud & Lund Cornhill London
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Barraud & Lund was a partnership formed between Frederick Joseph Barraud and John Richard Lund in 1838.

Frederick Joseph Barraud was the second son of famous clockmaker Paul Philip Barraud. John Richard Lund was a horological inventor who had been apprenticed to the great chronometer maker John Pennington.

The partnership carried on the fine traditions of Paul Phillip Barraud with Lund applying for a number of patents, including an invention that sought to eradicate the problem of middle-temperature compensation by incorporating a mechanism with a bimetallic balance.

Frederick Joseph Barraud died in 1859 and John Richard Lund in 1868 with members of both families continuing the business thereafter.