Swiss repeater with Grande Sonnerie Carillon Circa 1895

Hunting cased gold pocket watch by Henry Moser
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A Swiss very rare and very heavy gold hunting cased pocket watch with minute repeater and Grande Sonnerie Carillon, circa 1895.
Engine turned 18 carat gold “à goutte” case with case punch Henry Moser & Cie; Swiss precision lever movement in exceptional quality (maker probably Audemars) with patent punch 6835, self-striking hours and quarters with triple Carillon, repeating minutes also with triple Carillon, screwed gold chatons and special rocker mechanism for winding the 2 barrels with crown; white enamel dial with Roman numerals, sunk subsidiary dial for the constant seconds and blued steel hands. Matching numbers on case and movement.
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Diameter: 56 mm
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Weight: 197 g
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Signed: Henry Moser
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The watch is an absolute exception. The court watchmaker of the Russian czar, Henry Moser, used movements from the best Swiss manufacturers, mainly Audemars for the most complicated of his pocket watches, as well as this watch. With almost 200 g, this watch is one of the heaviest known hunting case watches with the rare complication in manner of the patent of César Racine. This movement construction has been patented several times by César Racine (Le Locle), CH Patent no. 6835 from 1893, CH Patent no. 16112 from 1898, and CH Patent no. 18583 from 1899. The present movement construction has regarding to the common edition a special feature: all 3 hammers lie on top of each other and are not arranged side by side! According to our knowledge there are only 2 more Henry Moser watches with this complication. An almost identical watch was sold in Geneva auction in 2011 for ca. 52,000 CHF, a gift watch with enamelled Czar eagle, sold in Geneva in 2007 for 233,000 CHF.