J.W. BENSON. A HIGHLY IMPORTANT, UNIQUE AND MAGNIFICENT TRIP-MINUTE REPEATING 18K GOLD ASTRONOMIC DOUBLE-DIALLED OPENFACE KEYLESS LEVER NAVIGATOR'S WATCH WITH TRIPLE SPLIT-SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH, 60-MINUTE REGISTER, TACHYMETER, EQUATION OF TIME...

J.W. BENSON. A HIGHLY IMPORTANT, UNIQUE AND MAGNIFICENT TRIP-MINUTE REPEATING 18K GOLD ASTRONOMIC DOUBLE-DIALLED OPENFACE KEYLESS LEVER NAVIGATOR'S WATCH WITH TRIPLE SPLIT-SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH, 60-MINUTE REGISTER, TACHYMETER, EQUATION OF TIME, CONCEALED DATE, 24-HOUR WORLD TIME FOR 63 CITIES, SUNRISE AND SUNSET INDICATIONS FOR LONDON, ZODIAX INDICATION AND CELESTIAL PLANISPHERE SKYMAP
SIGNED J.W. BENSON, LONDON, CIRCA 1900
Movement: Manual, 35 jewels
Dial: White enamel, both signed
Case: Three-body, Approx. 76 mm. diam.
With: Photocopies of correspondence between a former owner of the watch, Ralph Shermund, and the New York watchmaker Karl Pepla, dated 13th November 1956, translated into German on 9th July 1979

Provenance
The collection of Benjamin Mellenhoff, head of service and repair at Tiffany & Co., New York, by 1947.
Ralph Shermund, California, before 1956.
Cleaned and serviced by Karl Pepla, New York, 1956.