C.L. Guinand Split Second 14kt Gold Open-face Presentation Watch

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• Lot Description
  C.L. Guinand Split Second 14kt Gold Open-face Presentation Watch, Switzerland, arabic numeral porcelain dial with red outer minute track, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute counter, blued-steel hands, 17-jewel, stem-wind, stem-set movement with bimetallic balance, Breguet overcoil, and straight-line lever escapement, cuvette engraved "Golden Jubilee Visit of Col. Walter Scott B.C.C. Annual Games Aug. 7, 1926," case back stamped with maker's name and "103058," dia. 48 mm.
  
  Provenance: By descent from Edward Cussler (1882-1949). Born in Catskill, New York, the son of German immigrants, Cussler was self-conscious about his heritage. He enlisted during the First World War, though he was married and had three children. He served in France, but never confessed to speaking fluent German, determined to be American. A graduate of Columbia's medical school and practicing doctor, he died relatively young, his health compromised by alcoholism.
  
  Cussler was gifted the watch by one of his patients, Colonel Walter Scott (1861-1935), a direct descendant of the historical author/historian. The Colonel, born in Canada of Scots immigrants, moved with his family to Boston in 1864, where young Walter found a job in the grocery business. By the age of ten, he was manager of a small fruit store near Harvard University. At fifteen, the young businessman joined Butler Brothers, a firm of general wholesalers. In 1889 he was appointed manager in New York. He retired in 1932 after 55 years of service with the same employers. He sponsored scholarships at Smith College, the Stevens Institute of Technology, and the American International College; he endowed a prize at the University of Glasgow for a poem written in Lowland Scots dialect; he was a founder of the New York Broad Street Hospital, President of the Walter Scott Free Industrial School for Crippled Children, and, among his many other charities, he endowed numerous hospital beds.
  
  A lifelong interest in police work was prompted, perhaps, by his contacts with the service in the course of his charitable work. He endowed medals for bravery by policemen in New York, Boston, Worcester, Holyoke, Detroit, in Argentina and, of course, in Ireland. The New York City Police made him one of their own by appointing him an honorary Commissioner. He was a knight of the French Legion of Honour, a member of the Belgian Order of Leopold and held the Silver Grand Cross of Austria. He was also decorated by the British Government.

  Condition

  
  
  Condition: winding setting and ticking at time of cataloging, chronograph functions as intended and resets to 0, Monogramed case back SW. Case back hinge broken. Dial with some small scratches around center arbor. wt. 81g.
  
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