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H. Moser & Cie Round Pocket Watch Watch weight 33.7 grams Chain weight: 47 gr. White dial Graceful Roman numerals Two central arrows. Stopwatch at 6 o'clock Original box and documents !!!!! The state of the watch is collectible H. Moser & Cie - Where It Came From name? This story is known to few. Heinrich Moser was born in 1805 in Schaffhausen, belonged to a dynasty of watchmakers and was himself a watchmaker. At the age of 22, he emigrated to Russia, where he quickly created a real watchmaking empire called H. Moser & Cie. He established watch production in Le Locle, Switzerland, and purchased some parts from Urban Jurgensen and Jaeger-LeCoultre. At the height of its activity H. Moser & Cie produced 70 calibers, supplied watches to the Russian imperial court, and also sold a large number of watches in Japan, China, Persia, France and America. Moser began his career in Russia as a simple watchmaker, and left it as the head of the largest trading house with its own watch assembly production. He made sure that the name Moser became synonymous with the highest quality for Russians. “A man only has a watch. The clock is only Moser's. " Mayakovsky came up with this advertising slogan commissioned by GUM back in the early 1920s. Then no one could have imagined that advertising would become relevant again. But the brand “G. Moser and Co ”, which once thundered all over Russia, really returned from oblivion. True, not in Moscow or St. Petersburg, but in their historical homeland - in the Swiss city of Schaffhausen. By the way, the leader of the world proletariat himself wore a "bourgeois" watch with pleasure. Having expropriated the company in 1917, the Soviet authorities awarded Moser watches to their "best sons" for many decades. After returning to his native Schaffhausen, Heinrich Moser was very instrumental in the industrial boom in the city, namely the creation of a hydroelectric dam on the Rhine and the attraction of F.A.Jones, the founder of IWC, to the city. In 1974, Heinrich Moser's heirs sold his Russian business. The factory in Le Locle produced mechanical watches until 1980, and then closed forever. And at the end of 2005, in the year of the 200th anniversary of the birth of the "Russian Swiss", it was announced that a new watch was created under the old brand H. Moser & Cie. There are no Cyrillic inscriptions on them yet. And the first distribution networks are being created not in Russia, but in Southeast Asia, which is quite logical - the demand for luxury goods is growing the fastest in this region, especially in China. But over time, the brand will return to its "native" Russian soil. Until this watch brand officially entered the Russian market, which is a pity, since the name of Heinrich Moser sounds very good in our country. It is enough to run through all the places on the Internet where antique watches are offered, or auctions are held, to understand that the sellers of watches under the brand name “G. Moser "or her relative, clearly inflated expectations. And this testifies to the perception of this brand as very attractive, so that the Moser's heraldic shield engraved on the mechanism acts as a prestigious brand. The same heraldic shield is engraved on the bridges of the mechanisms “G. Moser & Co. ", which are developed and manufactured in the company - or rather, in the group of companies" Moser "(Moser Group AG). And the successors of the firm, which in 1913 received the title of supplier to the Russian imperial court, have every chance of winning the recognition of the new Kremlin elite. And not only the Kremlin. H. Moser & Cie owes its revival to the initiative of Dr. Jurgen Lange. Originally from East Germany, he worked for IWC for a long time, and then decided to start his own business. Having gathered a small group of investors, Lange, together with Roger Balsiger, reopened H. Moser & Cie. Balsiger, a direct descendant of Johann Heinrich Moser, became honorary president of the board of directors and brand ambassador. The mechanical watches presented by this Schaffhausen-based company are not only impressive in terms of pure timekeeping, but also stunning with their magnificent understated performance.