Elegant Swiss stainless steel dress watch with black dial Circa 1940

Stainless steel dress watch by Henry Moser & Cie
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A very rare, elegant Swiss stainless steel open faced dress watch of fine quality, circa 1940. Fine lever movement.
Polished case. Very rare black dial with radial Roman hours at III, IX and XII, an outer minute track, a subsidiary dial for the seconds and steel hands.
Dial and movement signed, case signed and numbered.
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Diameter: 47 mm
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Weight: 49 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.