Swiss fine and rare five-minute repeating pocket watch Circa 1887

Rose gold gentleman’s pocket watch by Patek Philippe & Co.
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A very fine and rare Geneva five-minute repeating gentleman’s pocket watch, circa 1887. Delivered to Spaulding & Co. Chicago to M. Keep Otis, who gave it to his future son-in-law on December 25, 1901.
Polished 18-carat rose gold à goutte case with engraved monogram, and a gold dome with dedication engraving: E. K. Hubbard Jr., from M.K.O., December 25 1901, Middletown, Conn. Signed enamel dial with radial Arabic hours, red Arabic minutes, extra seconds and blued spade hands. Bridge movement, rhodium-plated and signed, with Geneva Striping decoration, two hammers / two gongs, wolf teeth winding wheels, gold screw compensation balance and counterpoised lever.
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Diameter: 51 mm
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Weight: 111 g
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Signed: Patek Philippe & Cie. Genève
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Elijah Kent Hubbard Jr.
Elijah Kent Hubbard Jr., the manufacturer of Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, was born in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, on February 5, 1869. He is descended from George Hubbard, who came from England, settled in Hartford in 1639 and moved to Middletown in 1650. Mr Hubbard’s father is Elijah Kent Hubbard, president of the Russell Manufacturing Company, the world’s largest concern for manufacturing webbing. He has been presidential elector twice and has declined many public offices. He is generally admired for his sterling integrity and uprightness of character and for his prominence in the industrial life of Middletown. He was especially fond of horses and learned to drive at the age of six. His reading was as broad and general in scope as his capabilities.
In politics, Mr Hubbard was a Democrat. He has been a councilman on the city board and was, in 1902, a candidate for Lieutenant-Governor of Connecticut.

Mr Hubbard married Helen Keep Otis of Chicago in January 1902. Mr Hubbard was a member of many clubs and fraternities, including the University Club of New York, the Players Club of New York, the Hartford Club, the Middletown Club, the Masonic Club, the Mansfield Post G. A. R., the college fraternity, Psi Upsilon, the American Historical Society, the Hartford Golf Club and the Arawana Club. “Men of Mark in Connecticut, Ideal of American Life Told In Biographies and Autobiographies of Eminent Living Americans,” Edited by Colonel N. G. Osborn, Editor “New Haven Journal and Courier, Vol. III, William R. Goodspeed, Hartford, CT, 1907.