P A Guye Benson London 1/4 repeater / repeating pocket watch movement + Dial

1870s P A Guye Benson London 1/4 repeater / repeating pocket watch movement + Dial. The stem wind lever movement with diamond end stone is working but not serviced for some time, slide 1/4 repeat works, part of a watchmakers collection, amp 220. Measures 44.8mm across dial side & 38.9mm across top plates, 9.2mm thick. Signed P A Guye London who sold to J W Benson London.
When you get to see a movement like this that you understand just how incremental an art watchmaking really is!
In the late 1860s they started manufacturing movements entirely in house at their 13 Northampton Square (Clerkenwell). Soon after, they expanded their operations and began manufacturing movement ebauche and parts by machine at their 14 St. Bride Street (Ludgate Hill). The firm is best known today for being pioneers in Britain in the manufacture of machine made and interchangeable parts of a watch in the style of Swiss watchmaking in the day (i.e., Le Coultre, among others). All finishing, adjusting and assembling, like in Swiss factories of the day, was still carried out by hand.

_gsrx_vers_1706 (GS 9.9 (1706))