Barraud & Lunds, 41 Cornhill, London, No. 3/1075, with London hallmarks for 1872. Large and unusual silver keyless double-inking chronograph. | Important Collectors Wristwatches Pocket Watches & Clocks | Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, 21st October 1995

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Barraud & Lunds, 41 Cornhill, London, No. 3/1075, with London hallmarks for 1872. Large and unusual silver keyless double-inking chronograph.

CHF 11,000 - 13,000

C. Three piece, massive, "pommes et filets", polished, marked "P.W." (Philip Woodman). D. White enamel with small eccentric Roman hour register, outer minute register and subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "moderne" hand for hours and special inking chronograph arrow hands for both minute and seconds registers. M. 32"', threequarter plate, spotted, with going barrel, pointed tooth lateral lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, flat balance spring with regulator. Inking chronograph device based on the principle invented in France by Rieussec in 1821 and improved by Fatton for Breguet in 1823, but here operating both the seconds and the minute bands simultaneously. Signed on the dial and the back plate. hl very good condition. Diam. 85 mm.

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Note: This counter is fully described by Cedric Jagger in the Supplement of Paul Philip Barraud, 1968, p. 263 and illustrated on pl. XXVIII. We know of no other inking chronograph by Barraud or by any English maker other than Fatton, not only this but no other double-inking chronograph of the type now offered seems to be recorded, even by a continental maker.