Julliamy

Julliamy, London, No. ASOA, with London hallmarks for 1819-20. Fine 18K gold, half-quarter repeating watch with the coat-of-arms of Sir Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, Marquess of Buckingham. Four-body, “Empire” with reeded band, the back engraved with the coat-of-arms. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals. Blued-steel Breguet hands. Gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain and maintaining power, duplex escapement with ruby resting arbor and steel impulse pallet, plain flat three-arm polished steel balance, balance spring with bimetallic compensation curb on the regulation slide, gilt brass cock engraved with a mask and foliage sunk in the back plate overlay pierced engravedwith scrolling foliage, half-quarter repeating on gongs by depressing the pendant.Signed on the dial and back plate.Diam. 52 mm. Notes Richard-Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, Marquess of Buckingham, was born in 1776 and died in 1839. Known as Earl Temple from 1784 to 1813, he was elected member of parliament Buckinghamshire on 30 June 1797 and sat until 11 February 1813, during which time he was an active representative. He was made Marquess of Chandos and Duke of Buckingham and Chandos in 1822 by George IV who had already made him a Knight on 7 June 1820.