Henry Moser & Co

Henry Moser & Co. , No. 7056 made for the Russian market circa 1870. Extremely fine and rare, silver eight-day going, quarter-repeating carriage clock striking hours and half-hours with alarm, full calendar, day and night indication and chronometer escapement. multi-piece, “Empire”, massive, engine-turned, solid silver panels with silver laurel-leaf frames, the edges with flat section Corinthian columns silver finely chased capitals, glazed back, engine-turned top with glazed round aperture for viewing the escapement, four turned ball finials and arched handle, four bun feet. white enamel with small radial Roman chapter and seven subsidiary dials for seconds, ages of the moon, date, months with indications of the number of days in each, 24-hour dial calibrated for sunrise, midnight, sunset and noon, and days of the week with corresponding planets, below alarm setting. Blued steel Breguet hands. Notes This outstanding carriage clock can be compared with the best production of Breguet. The layout of the dial is elegant and unusual the sunrise and sunset indication is quite rare, the chronometer escapement is found only in the best carriage clocks. There exists one clock, very similar in appearance, made by Breguet for the Russian market. There is another signed by Wendham, Breguet's agent in Russia, which is strikingly similar. Hence, there is no surprise that when Moser wanted to present a carriage clock in his St. Petersburg or Moscow showroom, he chose the same design.