A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY EIGHT-DAY STRIKING DOMESTIC LONGCASE REGULATOR

BARRAUDS, LONDON, NO. 1140, CIRCA 1810

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A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY EIGHT-DAY STRIKING DOMESTIC LONGCASE REGULATOR
BARRAUDS, LONDON, NO. 1140, CIRCA 1810
CASE: the hood with fluted frieze, the trunk with canted angles, ebonised mouldings overall DIAL: the 11-inch diameter painted dial with Roman hours, minute track and subsidiary seconds dial, signed Barrauds Cornhill, LONDON and numbered 1140, gilt spade and pointer hands and blued-steel counter-poised seconds hand, the reverse to dial inscribed with numerous clock workers' signatures and further signed Barrauds MOVEMENT: with dead-beat escapement, Harrison's maintaining power, rack-striking to bell, shaped plates, five knopped pillars, the back plate engraved Barrauds Cornhill, LONDON, wood rod pendulum with lead-filled brass bob and calibrated rating nut; two brass-cased weights, winding key and case key
76¼ in. (193.6 cm.) high; 16 in. (41 cm.) wide; 8 7/8 in. (20.5 cm.) deep

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Paul Philip Barrauds was the grandson of the Huguenot silversmith, Paul Crespin. Working from Cornhill, London, he is known for his high quality precision work, particularly his chronometers. He became free of the Clockmakers' Company in 1796 and was elected master twice, in 1810 and 1811. He also partnered with William Howells and George Jamison when making Thomas Mudge's timekeepers.

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