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Originally Posted by jag32
These are amazing. What is the Up Down? Is that the power reserve?
Also, I’m not familiar with the brand. How is resale? Are they deep in history?
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Yes, the up/ down is the PR of the perpetual calendar movement.
Resale is unfortunately spotty (you can liken value retention to Lange); although the brand has been strengthening and prices are starting to stabilize in the secondary market a bit more.
Their history is interesting. Heinrich Moser was a Swiss national watchmaker who established a successful business in pre-Communist Russia. Apparently, he had no willing heir to take up the family business, so his company was sold upon his death in the 1870s to another business who continued to operate in Russia until they were forced to leave during the October Revolution in 1917. They operated in Switzerland until, I believe, the quartz crisis eventually did them in. The namesake was resurrected in the early 2000s by the Meylan family, who continue to run it.