BARRAUD NO 236; CIRCA 1800
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A Regency pocket chronometer
Barraud No 236; Circa 1800
The white enamel dial (cracks) signed and numbered Barraud 236 Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute (damaged) Breguet hands, subsidiary seconds dial (at VI) with blued steel hand, frosted gilt movement now with Earnshaw escapement and later cut bimetallic balance with cylindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, later replacement spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, associated white metal open-face case, in later three-tier rosewood deck box, the top with inset ivory disc inscribed Barraud 236.
50 mm. dial diam., 110 mm. wide box
Barraud No 236; Circa 1800
The white enamel dial (cracks) signed and numbered Barraud 236 Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute (damaged) Breguet hands, subsidiary seconds dial (at VI) with blued steel hand, frosted gilt movement now with Earnshaw escapement and later cut bimetallic balance with cylindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, later replacement spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, associated white metal open-face case, in later three-tier rosewood deck box, the top with inset ivory disc inscribed Barraud 236.
50 mm. dial diam., 110 mm. wide box