Historical Swiss gold repeating pocket watch Circa 1900

Gold keyless lever minute repeater
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A historical Swiss 18 carat yellow gold hunting cased keyless pocket watch made by Stauffer & Co., in La Chaux-de-Fonds, circa 1900. Minute repeater by two hammers on two steel gongs, activated by the slide located on the case band at 6 o’clock. Cover and case back are polished, cover is engraved in fine cut with the coat of arms of the Milliken family, originally from Scotland, and its motto Regarde bien. The case back is engraved with the inscription: Sydney J. Minnel/A present from/Mother.
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White enamel dial, with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds at 6 and blued steel Spade hands. A frosted and gilded brass, ¾ plate movement, going barrel, gold screwed chatons, lateral pointed tooth lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensated balance with gold poising screws and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve, polished steel index regulator; repeater work on the main plate, under the dial. Signature on the movement.
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Diameter: 53 mm
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Weight: 132 g
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Signed: Stauffer & Co.,  La Chaux-de-Fonds
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Stauffer & Co.
This company was founded circa 1830 by Robert Stauffer in La Chaux-de-Fonds. His son Jules Stauffer opened a London branch together with Francis Claude around 1857; it was called Stauffer, Son & Co., and its purpose was the sale of Swiss watches in London (12 Old Jewry Chambers). After Jules Stauffer died in 1884, Claude entered a partnership with Charles Nicolet, who had been in London since the 1870’s. Before coming to London, Nicolet had attended the watchmaking school in La Chaux-de-Fonds for three years.
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After the retirement of Francis Claude, Charles Nicolet took over management of the company in London and in La Chaux-de-Fonds. The Watchmaker Jeweller and Silversmith reported on the watches, chronometers and repeating watches exhibited by them at the Inventions Exhibition of 1885. Listed in Directories at this period as wholesale watch manufacturers and importers, they moved to 13 Charterhouse Street, Holborn, London EC in 1887.