DESCRIPTION:
EPW - M.T. Stauffer, Swiss, minute repeater with split-seconds chronograph and 30-minute register, 47mm, 18K gold OF original case with initials to rear, repeat slide at left, split-seconds button at 11, slide allowing or preventing chronograph activation at 12:30, gold cuvette engraved "1892 New Haven Conn. 1917 Presented to John Keeler Punderford, V.P. & G.M. of The Connecticut Co., G.M. of the N.Y. and Stamford Ry. Co. and the Westchester St. R.R. Co. July 2, 1917, by members of the operating Departments upon his completing Twenty Five Years in the Electric Street Railway Service," white enamel triple-sunk dial, SW-SS, lever escapement with capped escape wheel, 35J, fausses-côtes pattern nickel damascene, s#57756 within case. Gross weight of assembled watch 48.9 dwt (76.0 g). John K. Punderford spent his entire working career in association with electric railways, having his beginnings in 1892 with the Winchester Avenue Railroad Co. of New Haven assisting in electrifying the system to replace horse-drawn cars. Over the following years Punderford advanced rapidly in his positions with a number of electric railway companies, and in 1923 was vice president of the American Electric Railway Association and in 1924 was president of the Transportation and Traffic Association.
CONDITION:
Mvt: Running, good repeat function and tone other than a sluggishness of operation, good chronograph and register function, split-seconds is functioning but reset of hand is very sluggish and occasionally falls a bit short of full reset, overhaul recommended to address sluggishness of repeat function and sluggishness of split-seconds reset function, excellent cosmetic mvt condition overall, one mismatched blue colored screw, mild oxide to steelwork, few fine scratches to plates; dial has two light hls above seconds-register, one light hl below indicator-register; fine-plus hands; case shows very little wear, few fine scratches to rear, ding to band at 2:30, some smaller additional nicks to band between 2 and 3, excellent engraving detail; bow has been fused stiff with gold solder applied at pendant junction, crown shows light wear; good glass crystal.
ESTIMATE:
$4000
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$7000
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