HENRY MOSER & Cie antique 1887-1890 IWC Swiss art deco 14k Gold pocket watch

  

Solid Gold Mens Pocket Watch. T his "Hy Moser & Cie" Solid Gold Mens Pocket Watch is a truly rare find for the unique pocket watch lovers and, especially, the rare antique Swiss International Watch Company (IWC) Schaffhausen collectors! M anufactured in Switzerland by one of the most famous watchmakers, the originator of the International Watch Co. And the official supplier of watches to the Russian Imperial court, Henry Moser in ca.

T he watch is in working order. W ith the original watch-hands and crystal glass in good condition, all covers closing tight and open properly. T he full Hunter Case is made of 56° (14K) Rose Gold and has a Serial No.

This watch has one frontal and two rear covers, external and internal. The presence of the inner lid is a good sign of a high quality watch and is used to protect the mechanism from dust, as well as providing added protection from moisture. B oth, the frontal and the upper rear covers display machined decorations and are inscripted Hy Moser & Cie and hallmarked. The solid gold inner lid also bears the following inscriptions: Hy Moser & Cie, "15 Rubies", "Echappement a Ancre", "Qualite Salter" and Serial No.

T he watch measures: 53 mm across and 73 mm, including crown. Weight: 64.14dwt (98.9g). T he 15-Jewel pin-set nickel movement has a lever escapement and anchor-style layout. T he white porcelain dial features Roman numerals and is signed Hy Moser & Cie. The smaller stopwatch dial, located at the bottom of the main watch dial, features Arabic numerals.

Johann Heinrich Moser - The Watchmaker to the Tsars. J ohann Heinrich Moser was born and grew up in Schaffhausen in the traditions and experience of a watch making dynasty that had become established over the generations. Son and grandson of watchmakers, he learned the traditional watchmakers craft from his father, Erhard Moser and from his grandfather Johannes Moser. In 1824, he left Schaffhausen to set up in Le Locle, where he perfected his knowledge in the presence of the greatest watchmakers of the time.

Two years later, he tried to return and set up business in his home town, but the Municipal Council rejected his request to be given the honorary post of watchmaker to the town in favor of someone else. H einrich Moser & Co. Came into being in 1828 and in 1829, Johann Heinrich Moser founded his watch making business in Locle to manufacture pocket watches. As an ambitious and visionary watchmaker, Johann Heinrich Moser decided to set up in business in Russia.

Tsarist Russia at the time was regarded as an excellent labor and sales market and as a sound trading base for watches. After several employed positions as a watchmaker, he founded his own company in St.

Petersburg at the end of 1828. This marked the hour of inception of the greatly successful brand, Hy Moser & Cie.

A longside precision watches and watches designed as pieces of jewelers, Johann Heinrich Moser also offered a range of simple watches. Johann Heinrich Moser accordingly established a watch factory in Le Locle in 1829, which produced watches exclusively for his businesses.

This allowed him to guarantee the high quality of his products. Eventually, he was made an honorary citizen of Le Locle in acknowledgement of his services to the town in the Swiss Jura. Johann Heinrich Mosers constant quest for quality was crowned by success.

In 1831, he opened a subsidiary in Moscow, and became supplier to the Tsars, the Royal Families, the Imperial Court and the Russian Army. J ohann Heinrich Moser also developed sales of his watches in Siberia and Kamchatka as well as New York and Paris, where his brother George Moser was working as a watchmaker. Only 15 years after starting his company, Johann Heinrich Moser was the undisputed market leader in the Russian watch trade. In 1845, the Johann Heinrich Moser companies in Russia employed around fifty people.

Having become a prosperous watchmaker, Johann Heinrich Moser decided to return and settle definitively in his home town of Schaffhausen at the end of 1848 where he had the Charlottenfels castle built. He became one of the key figures in the town, participating actively in its development.

T he first internationally active company founded by Johann Heinrich Moser was the St. Petersburg trading company, Hy Moser & Co.

From this name, he developed the company signature in Latin and in Cyrillic script, which was almost always accompanied by a medallion. Until about 1918, these symbols were the standard signature on all watches supplied by Heinrich Mosers watch company.

I n 1829, Johann Heinrich Moser opened a watch factory in le Locle, which also bore the name Hy Moser & Co.. The Russian operation had to be abandoned in 1917 in the aftermath of the October Revolution.

In about 1920, in Moscow he founded the Central watch repair workshop on the ashes of the Moser watch making factories of old Tsarist Russia. For the seventy-year period of the Soviet Union Henry Moser watches would remain synonymous with work of a superior quality for the leaders of the eastern bloc. A s proof of this, in 1966, the USSR presented one of its high-ranking military staff a Moser pocket watch in 18-carat gold, dating from before 1917 (this collectors piece has now been bought back by Moser Schaffhausen AG). T he name of Henry Moser also died out in this branch of the family in 1923 with the death of Heinrich Mosers only son, who had no male offsprings. Jürgen Lange and the great-grandson of Johann Heinrich Moser, Roger Nicholas Balsiger, jointly with private investors, founded the watch company Moser Schaffhausen AG. Lange also registered the original brand H. Moser & Cie again internationally. It was a time of renaissance for the Moser Schaffhausen AG and the reintegration of the Henry Moser lineage. " H enry Moser" watches were so popular and demanded that there were their fakes.

Therefore, in trading price-lists of these firms, among the list of addresses of shops, types of watches and the prices for them, there were so-called "Cautions". For example, in the Trading price-list of factory of Moser for March, 1906 it is written, that " for elimination of cases of abusing by some dealers by the name of our firm we consider necessary to recommend wishing to get watches of our factory to pay special attention on that - whether it is placed on offered watches per brands available on them and inscriptions in French before a surname "MOSER & Ce" letters "Hy", as only with such brands and inscriptions watches are really products sew factories". T hese cautions are useful and to modern collectors of watches, as well. Today, Roger Nicholas Balsiger, great grandson of Johann Heinrich Moser, heads the companys administrative council as its honorary president.

In the autumn of 2005, for the 200th anniversary of its founder, the company reappeared on the international watch making scene. Add a map to your own listings. The item "HENRY MOSER & Cie antique 1887-1890 IWC Swiss art deco 14k Gold pocket watch" is in sale since Friday, September 1, 2017.

This item is in the category "Jewelry & Watches\Watches, Parts & Accessories\Pocket Watches\Antique". The seller is "antiques-and-collectibles_bt" and is located in Belgrade. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Year of Manufacture: 1890-1899
• Material: Solid Gold
• Features: 12-Hour Dial
• Movement: Mechanical (Hand-winding)
• Serial Number: 95515
• Number of Jewels: 15 Jewels
• Country/Region of Manufacture: Russian Federation