Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments
Description:
18kt Gold Benedict Brothers Minute Repeating Open-face Watch, New York, double sunk center arabic numeral porcelain dial with red minute outer track, and constant seconds at 6, marked "Benedict Brothers," interior cuvette with engine-turned shell decoration and marked "5234/229," Geneve striped stem-wind, stem-set movement engraved "Benedict Brothers New York/Superior/Adjustment 5234," dia. 49 mm, 102g.
Estimate $3,000-5,000
currently winding setting and ticking, updated 9/30/19 repeating function sluggish, case, cuvette and movement marked 5234
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Jonathan Dowling
Director, Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments
508-970-3131
Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments
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