Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, May 13, 2007

LOT 651

?Five-Minute Repeater, Independent Dead Center Seconds? Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 47348, especially made for H. Moser & Cie. Made in 1872 for the Russian market, sold on December 22nd, 1873. Very fine and very rare, five-minute repeating, 18K yellow gold, hunting-cased, two-train pocket watch with independent dead center seconds. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

CHF 50,000 - 70,000

EUR 30,000 - 45,000 / USD 40,000 - 57,000

Sold: CHF 68,440

C. Four-body, ?demi-bassine?, solid, polished. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. 43 mm., Cal. 19''', frosted gilt, 29 jewels, two-train with differential winding, straight-line counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band, dead center seconds hand stopped by depressing the crown. Cuvette signed H. Moser, cover stamped PPC. Diam. 53 mm. Property of a Swedish Gentleman


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Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3

Good
Dial: 3-47-01

Good

HANDS Original

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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 such far places as Vladivostock in Siberia. In the third quarter of the 19th century they became suppliers to the Tsar.