English gold watch made for the Chinese market Circa 1820

Gold, enamel and pearl set watch
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A very fine and rare, large English, 18 carat gold, enamel and pearl set pocket watch, circa 1820. Gold Paillon Rosette by Barrauds, Cornhill, London. Made for the Chinese market. An empire case with a fixed cuvette, coin edge band, split pearl set bezels pendant and bow, the spring loaded back opened by a push piece in the pendant and overlaid with translucent royal blue enamel over wavy line engine turned, the center with a varicoloured gold paillon rosette, paillon border to match. Gilded dust cap with finely engraved foliate border.
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White enamel dial with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and large subsidiary seconds. Gold spade hands. A hinged, full plate, gilt movement, ringed cylindrical pillars, going barrel, cylinder escapement with steel escape wheel, brass four arm balance, flat balance spring with Joseph Bosley patented regulator, gilded cock finely pierced and engraved with scrolling foliage.
Dial numbered, movement signed and numbered.
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Diameter: 62 mm
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Signed: Barrauds  Cornhill, London
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Barrauds 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.