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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 15, 2000

LOT 66

Henry Moser & Cie, Swiss, No. 51696, circa 1890.Fine 14K gold, minute repeating keyless watch with chronograph and 30-minute register for the Russian market.

CHF 1,800 - 2,200

USD 1,000 - 1,200

Sold: CHF 4,140

C. Four-body, "demi-bassine", polished, gold hinged cuvette. D. White enamel dial, Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register at 12 o?clock, gold "spade" hands. M. 20???, rhodiumed, 'fausses côtes' decoration, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued-steel Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs through activating the slide in the band.Signed on dial and the case, signature on case repeated in Cyrillic, stamped with Moser?s trademark on the movement.Diam. 52 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3 - 6
Movement: 4 - 5*
Dial: 4 - 01

Notes

Johann Heinrich Moser (1805 - 1874)Swiss watchmaker, son of a clockmaker, moved to St. Petersburg about 1827, where he opened a watch business (Nevskii Prospect and Malaya Konyushennaya St.). He had also a branch in Moscow. Moscow registers shows that he had an office there from 1827 to 1874 on Ilinka St. In 1874 the son Henry Moser, Jr. took over the business. The Moser Co. did business all over Russia, including so far places as Vladivostock in Siberia. In the third quarter of the 19th century they became suppliers to the Tsar.Swiss, circa 1880.