Very flat Swiss gold minute repeating dress watch Circa 1905

Gold open faced repeating lever by Henry Moser
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A very flat and rare Swiss 18 carat gold open faced minute repeating lever dress watch probably made for Czarist Russia, circa 1905. Very flat and fine precision movement, lever escapement, gold wheels, repeating the hours, quarter hours and minutes, the calibre by Audemars Piguet. Gilt dial with Roman hours, outer minute divisions, subsidiary seconds and blued steel hands. Plain case, maker’s punch mark AP & Co, formerly with an enamelled escutcheon on the back, cuvette inscribed Marque Déposée Hy Moser & Cie No 13954.
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Diameter: 46 mm

Weight: 54 g
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Signed: Hy Moser & Cie
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Moser & Cie is a trademark of Moser Schaffhausen AG, a Swiss luxury watch manufacturer. The original H. Moser & Cie was founded in 1828 by the independent watchmaker Heinrich Moser in St. Petersburg, Russia. Notable early clients included the Russian princes and members of the Russian Imperial Court. Vladimir Lenin also owned a Moser watch. After Moser died in 1874, the company was sold and its business in Russia was dispossessed in 1918 due to the October Revolution. In 1953, H. Moser & Cie continued its business in Le Locle, Switzerland where it shifted its focus from pocket watches to wristwatches. Due to the quartz crisis, H. Moser & Cie became a part of the Dixi Mechanique Group and the original brand name was dropped. In 2002, Moser Schaffhausen AG was founded by Dr Jürgen Lange together with Heinrich Moser’s great-grandson Roger Nicholas Balsiger and the brand H. Moser & Cie was formally re-launched in 2005. Since 2012, Moser Schaffhausen AG has been a subsidiary of the MELB Holding Group of the Meylan family in Switzerland.