Swiss minute repeating pocket watch with chronograph Circa 1910

Gold hunting cased pocket watch by Stauffer & Co.
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A fine and heavy, Swiss, keyless winding, minute repeating hunting cased pocket watch with chronograph and minute recorder, circa 1910-1913.
This historical watch has three horological complications: – Minute repeater on two steel gongs (activated by the slide at 6 o’clock) – 1/5 second chronograph (activated by the olive shaped push piece located on the case band at 12 o’clock) – Instantaneous 30-minute recorder (subsidiary dial at 12 o’clock).
Round-shaped 18 Carat yellow gold half hunting case. Cuvette engraved in taille-douce (fine cut) with the dedication For Long Service / Presented / to / John Gray / Together with a certificate / On his completing / 15 years services with / Lever Brothers / Limited / Port Sunlight. / 24th June 1913. Enamel dial with Roman radial hours, outer minutes/seconds track with Arabic five minutes/seconds numerals, subsidiary dial for the constant seconds, 30-minute recorder, and blued double acting bulbs hands. Gilded brass movement with going barrel, straight line lever escapement, cut compensated balance and blued steel hairspring with a terminal curve. Movement signed
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Diameter: 53 mm
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Signed: Stauffer & Co.
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Stauffer & Co. / Stauffer, Son & Co. Stauffer, Fils & Cie.
Stauffer & Co. was founded around 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. After Jules Stauffer died in 1884, Claude entered a partnership with Charles Nicolet, who had been in London since the 1870s; before coming to London, Nicolet had attended the watchmaking school in La Chaux-de-Fonds for three years. After the retirement of Francis Claude, Charles Nicolet took over management of the company in London and La Chaux-de-Fonds.