Rare Swiss small gold minute repeating lever watch Circa 1900

Gold minute repeater by Haas Neveux & Cie.
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A Swiss very fine, rare and small, minute repeating keyless lady’s watch with high quality movement, circa 1900. Made for Theodore B. Starr, New York.
18 Carat gold, polished case the back with engraved monogram, swivel bow. Dedicated hinged gold cuvette.
White enamel with Breguet numerals, outer minute track and red painted Arabic five minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands.
Movement with Geneva stripes, 28 jewels, four in screwed gold chatons, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating with two hammers on two gongs activated by a slide in the band.
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Diameter: 33.5 mm
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Signed: Attributed to Haas Neveux & Cie., Genève
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Theodore B. Starr was a company of silver smiths founded in New York in 1862 by Theodore Starr. In 1864, he was joined by Herman Marcus, and the company became known as Starr and Marcus. Marcus left to join Tiffany’s in 1877, and Starr bought back control of the company, with the name of the company becoming Theodore B. Starr. The company was incorporated in 1907 by Starr’s son, before being bought in 1918 by Reed and Barton, a silver firm, and finally closing in 1923.