Swiss 14K gold minute repeating pocket watch Circa 1890

Gold hunting lever by Hy. Moser & Cie.
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A Swiss 14K gold minute repeating hunting cased keyless pocket watch, circa 1890.
A massive case with engine turned backs and a gold cuvette. White enamel dial with Arabic numerals and sunk subsidiary seconds and gold spade hands. Nickel-plated movement, Geneva striping decoration, 24 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring. Repeating on gongs with slide in the band. Signed on the dial, case and the cuvette.
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Diameter: 51 mm
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Thickness: 14 mm
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Signed: Hy. Moser & Cie.  Swiss
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Hy. 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.
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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.