Historically important vintage pocket. 55mm yellow gold case with a polished finish and an exhibition caseback. The white dial with Roman numerals and an open face gives it a classic look. The watch also has a screwdown crown, month, date, and day indicators, a moon phase display, and a 12-hour dial. The quarter repeater movement ensures excellent accuracy. The watch was manufactured in France circa. 1870 .The watch does not come with any papers, service records, chain, or original packaging. This pocket watch is a must-have for any collector or enthusiast.

Little history about the time piece:

This impressive and substantial repeating and calendar watch was presented to the renowned surgeon Albert Ritter Mosetig von Moorhof by King George V of Hanover in 1874. The nature of the inscription suggesting everlasting gratitude implies that von Moorhof successfully treated the King or a member of his family.

The present watch was evidently an important and substantial gift, it has been engraved with von Moorhof’s arms as Surgeon-General of the German Order of Knights and was purchased in Paris from the very prestigious jewellers Tessier. The motto “Per Ardua ad Alta” translates as “Through hardship, great heights are reached.”.

Of both historical and horological interest, the present watch is a superb piece for the collector and connoisseur of fine watchmaking. Albert Ritter Mosetig von Moorhof (1838-1907) was a famous Austrian surgeon who was present in the battlefield in Bohemia in 1866. He was chief surgeon in a French military hospital in Paris in 1870/1871 and was then appointed to the primary surgical department of the Rudolf Institution hospital. In 1873 he worked as the chief physician of the Viennese world exhibition. He is most remembered for the introduction of iodoform in the treatment of wounds and devised a number of useful instruments.

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