Barrauds, London

• unusually slim cylinder escapement, brass three-arm balance, regulator with applied silver scale, plain balance cock, ruby endstone, dust cap • white enamel dial with Arabic numerals, gold arrow hands, winding square situated above 6 o'clock • champlevé enamel decoration on both front and rear bezels, case back features a fine stipple-work portrait miniature of a young lady painted on ivory possibly by Simon Rochard (1788-1872), framed by graduated diamonds, case marked IM for John Marsh • movement signed Barrauds, Cornhill London, 2/1301

Chester Beatty

Sotheby's London, Chester Beatty Collection, Part 1 December 1962, lot 71

Terence Camerer Cuss, The English Watch 1585-1970, p. 366, 367 pl. 237.

Cedric Jagger, "Paul Philip Barraud" Antiquarian Horological Society, (1968) p. 144

Movement running when wound at the time of cataloguing. Dial with minor scuffs, and hair line cracks at 11 and 1 o'clock, dot missing from minute track. Latch ineffective, movement held in place by friction alone. White enamel on bezels and pendant showing some slight discolouration and minimal damage. Miniature on rear of case in very good condition colours remain vibrant and detail defined. **The miniature on the this pocket watch is painted on an endangered species; please refer to important notices for further information**
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**Please be advised that bands made of materials derived from endangered or otherwise protected species (i.e. alligator and crocodile) are not sold with the watches and are for display purposes only. We reserve the right to remove these bands prior to shipping.

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The Sotheby's London Chester Beatty catalogue in 1964 attributed this portrait miniature  to Simon Rochard,  which Cedric Jagger also supported in his 1968 book, Paul Philip Barraud.  Apart from the finely painted miniature, one should also note the slimness of the watch, which was just coming into fashion during this period.  Simon Rochard, (1788-1872) was a well known miniature portrait artist. Rochard was born in Paris and schooled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he studied under J.B.J Augustin.  Among Rochard's most famous commissions is the portrait miniature of the Duke of Wellington for the King of Spain prior to the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.  Following this, he moved to London and established himself as the favourite miniature portraitist of the Aristocracy.  He remained in London from 1814-1845 where he exhibited at the Royal Academy, Society of British Artists and the New Watercolour Society. He moved to Brussels in 1846. 

For a note on Barraud see lot 76.