Imperial Russ Moser Pocket Watch 14k Gold Painted Enamel Portrait-Tsar and Queen

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Imperial Russ Moser Pocket Watch 14k Gold Painted Enamel Portrait-Tsar and Queen:
$24502.50

Imperial Russ Moser Pocket Watch 14k Gold Painted Enamel Portrait-Tsar and Queen Imperial Russ Moser Pocket Watch 14k Gold Painted Enamel Portrait-Tsar and Queen

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I am pleased to offer from my private collection this absolutely ONE OF A KIND and extremely important historical antique Imperial Russ Tsar's Era award solid 14k gold &hand painted enamel full hunter case H.Moser&Cie pocket watch with the original luxury presentation box c1890's in mint original condition!

Moser watch maker was the official supplier to the Imperial Russ Court.

The watch has a heavy solid 14k gold full hunter case(hallmarked with the Imperial Russ 56 gold hallmark) depicting a hand painted enamel portraits of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.

High grade H.Moser movement with maximum jewlls,Breguet spiral ,compensating balance wheel with gold screwed weights.
Perfect working order.
The watch is 77grams heavy,49mm in diameter.
The watch comes with the original presentation box signed in Cyrillic "H.Moser&Cie,Moscow" and decorated with the Imperial Russ Coat of arms-the double headed crowned eagle.

Provenance:

The watch has been awarded personally by Tsar Nicholas II to the navy captain Oleg Vorontzov.
A personal watch awarded by the Russ Emperor was considered for the highest rank prize ever in the Russ Empire. The award watches was with the same status as the order and medals in the army.

The watch comes from the Vorontzov 's family estate.
Captain Vorontzov and his family escaped the communist revolution c 1917 and emigrated to Bulgaria. He continued his military career in the Bulgarian Roayla army.

This is much more than a watch-this is a piece of the history!

The watch comes with CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY&APPRAISAL FOR $25,000.00

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HISTORY:

Heinrich Moser was born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland in 1805 into a family of watchmakers. At the age of 21, the young Heinrich had the bold idea of moving to St. Petersburg to establish himself there, as a master watchmaker. This adventure wasn’t entirely self-imposed either. For generations, the Moser family had been trusted with the responsibility of maintaining the public clocks of Schaffhausen – however, when it was his turn, Heinrich, for his young age, was not given the opportunity to prove himself. This was more than enough of a motivation to set off on his own path – which, as we will see, he very much chose to lead him back to his hometown.
Just a year later, in 1828, he established H. Moser & Cie. in St. Petersburg, where this name soon became a symbol of quality, elegance, and reliable watches with exceptional manufacture movements. Moser went on to develop from an artisanal watchmaker into a true entrepreneur, who not only understood all the details of his products, but also created a full-scale production system with an international service and retailer network – from scratch, in the early- to mid-1800s. It is worth noting that the Moser name has truly become analog with quality watches – some 1920s advertisements are just fascinating flashbacks to the past that further prove this point
Upon his return to his hometown, Heinrich dedicated much of his by-now vast fortune to develop the Schaffhausen region, totally transforming the sleepy little place into a prosperous and powerful town. In 1864, the Moser-dam was finished, a massive and incredibly impactful structure whose primary purpose was to harness the river Rhine’s power to supply energy to the town of Schaffhausen, hence providing it with the opportunity to industrialize and reap all the benefits of turning into a town that manufactures a wide range of products.
A truly entrepreneurial undertaking, turning a small settlement into a major hub in manufacturing, Heinrich Moser set out to design the entire dam-canal system along with its turbines himself – though, over time, he saw that he would definitely have to call upon further assistance to realize his plans. Entire structures grew out of the hectically running Rhine, housing massive turbines that would transfer the river’s energy to the many new buildings and manufactures that now ran along the river and helped Schaffhausen transform. There were even 2-person cable cars transporting workers across the Rhine – a system built in 1866, this was the first of its kind in Switzerland.
It is also worth mentioning how IWC Schaffhausen started out by renting part of a building that Heinrich Moser had set up specifically to give space to new small and medium-sized businesses. Beyond his joint ventures to develop the local industry, Heinrich Moser opened up a watch case manufacture in Schaffhausen, in 1853. In 1918, the company H. Moser & Cie. was expropriated following the turmoil of the Russ Communist Revolution.

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