English gold watch made for the Chinese market Circa 1813

CHF est. 30,000 – 50,000 / Sold: CHF 37,500 – Euro 33,750
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Gold, enamel and pearl pocket watch 
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An elegant English 18 carat gold painted on enamel, pearl set pocket watch, circa 1813. Made for the Chinese market, the case with London hallmarks for 1813-1814. An Empire case with a fixed cuvette, flat reeded band, split pearl set bezel pendant and bow. The spring loaded back opened by a push piece in the pendant and painted on enamel with a fine bouquet and foliage against a translucent red enamel background over wavy line engine turned. The scalloped border is decorated in champlevé enamel.
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White enamel dial with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, large subsidiary seconds and gold spade hands. Full plate, gilt movement, 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.
Dial and movement signed.
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Diameter: 60 mm
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Signed: Barrauds  Cornhill, London
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The Barrauds, a family of watchmakers. Paul Philip Barraud was a prominent English watchmaker. He became well known for the construction of chronometers.
He was admitted to the freedom of the City of London and the Clockmakers’ Company on January 11^th, 1796 by redemption. Paul Philippe became a Liveryman in 1796, entered the Court of Assistants in 1806, was Junior Warden in 1807, Renter Warden in 1808 and Senior Warden in 1809. He became a master in 1810 and repeated as a master in 1811. Paul Philip had three sons: Frederick Joseph, John and James. After a long and prolific life, Paul Philip died in 1820 and Frederick Joseph assumed management of the firm.
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Frederick Joseph was free of the Clockmakers’ Company in 1806. He took his son Frederick Philip and the son of his brother John, Hilton Paul, as his apprentices. John himself had only a minor role in the business and the youngest brother James did not follow the trade at all. In 1838, Frederick Philip joined in partnership with John Richard Lund, a horological inventor, the firm name became Barrauds & Lund. In 1846 Hilton Paul replaced his uncle, Frederick Joseph in the firm. Frederick Paul died on August 12^th, 1849 and the business was renamed Barraud & Lund. Frederick Joseph died on September 4^th, 1859.