Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 15, 2010

LOT 226

Henry Moser - Day & Date Henry Moser & Cie, case No. 212145. Made for the Russian market circa 1915. Fine and rare, nickel cased wristwatch with date and "digital" days of the week.

C. Four-body, solid, polished, rounded bezel, central hinged wire lugs, hand-setting pusher on the band, hinged engraved cuvette. D. Matte silver with painted stylized radial Arabic numerals, outer minute track, red painted outer graduation for the date, subsidiary guilloche seconds dial, aperture for the days of the week. Blued steel spade hands, arrow hand for the date. M. Cal. 13''', frosted gilt, 15 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Case, cuvette and movement signed. Diam. 34 mm. Thickness 13 mm.