
The legendary "Russian Swiss" firm Henry Moser & Cie was founded in Johann Moser Henry Le Lokle, Switzerland. By its products in Russia, the company has found a huge market, and all production was targeted at Russian market.
The founder of the company, Johann Heinrich Moser was born in the Swiss city of Schaffhausen, in the family clockmaker. His skill improved master clock in Les Lokle, which moved along with his father. In Russia Moser appeared in 1820 - s, and in 1826 in St. Petersburg created hour workshop, sounding somewhat changing its name in English manners - Henry Moser. Already in 1828 G. Moser opened a trade office in St. Petersburg, and in 1839 - Trading House in Moscow. Shops hours "G. Moser" besides Moscow and St. Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod have addresses propiska. Through Nizhegorodskuyu fair hours collected in Russia, infiltrate into India and China. All aspects of the details of hours "Moser" ordered in workshops Le-Loklya, and in St. Petersburg of them gathered hours. However, some Packaging and Dial made in St. Petersburg, as spoken English inscription "G. MOZER MOSCOW V" on some copies.
G. Moser factory produces a wide range of pocket hours - male and female, and to fight without a fight, in gold, silver and steel shells of various cuts, factory and the key "to handle" (that is, from remontuarom), chronograph. Especially considered expensive gold watches with rehearsed, with the fight quarters and minutes, with perpetual calendar and the Moon (ie with decentralised lunar phases). Proposals pocket watch different species (or, in contemporary language, stamps): "Blondel", "Robert", "Lepin," Salter "," Tobias "," Monard and others. Graduation was made by the nature of specific device mechanism. Production necessarily stamp. Moreover, the location of his hallmarks and informative, too, reflect the quality and cost hours. For example, only one watch with the inscription "Hy Moser & Co" to the inside of the lid, no name brands were better and cost more. Of them, those on which the company was engraved inscription gothic script, were considered to be of higher quality. Such arrangements have ordered G. Moser for its jewelry K. Faberge works.
Wall clocks and regulators, one week and issued two-week factory buildings in oak and walnut shells from a tree in the early twentieth century, performed in modern style. Usually there are wall clocks and more expensive regulators to do with the quarter-fight, which actually checks the progress of other household hours. The company produced and mantel clocks of various sizes, often referred to as dining, in buildings made of black marble and onyx (green marble), with gilded bronze and shpiatrovymi (zinc) decorations, and to fight without a fight.
Pocket watches "G. Moser" were so popular and in demand that appeared forgery. Therefore, the trading price lists these firms, among the list of addresses of shops, types of hours and prices for them, attended the so-called "PREDOSTEREZHENIYA." For example, in the Trade Moser factory price list for March 1906 says that "to address abuses by some traders believe the name of our company wishing to acquire necessary to recommend the hours of our factory to pay special attention to the fact - whether placed on the proposed pocket watches that are available to them and stamp the captions in French before the name "MOSER & Co" letters "H y", because only with such stamp and inscriptions hours are indeed products of our factory. " These warnings are useful for contemporary collectors hours.
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