A gifted watchmaker and industrial pioneerHeinrich Moser - A Biography
An exceptional book has been reissued in an exclusive private edition: the biography, originally printed in 1875, of a watch manufacturer, industrial pioneer and one of the first true internationalists. A friend and teacher of Heinrich Moser was urged, just a year after Moser’s death, to publish a book about his life. In view of the fact that Heinrich Moser’s life’s work and business management principles are still remarkable, even by today’s standards, a slipcase containing a faithful reproduction of the 1875 edition is now being presented to the public, more than 130 years after its original publication.
This facsimile corresponds as closely as possible to one of the rare books by Pfaff still in existence. Unfortunately the typography used in those days is, for many, now illegible. The slipcase therefore also contains a booklet with the same text but in a modern typeface and, in addition to German, also in other languages.
It is greatly to Prof. Dr. Adam Pfaff’s credit as a historian and a friend of the family that, barely a year after Heinrich Moser’s death, a biography of the man and industrial pioneer was published which was also to serve as the basis for subsequent biographers. The reproduction of what is possibly the only biography of a gifted watchmaker and industrial pioneer is intended, more than 200 years after his birth, to maintain our indebtedness to the tradition of many of the companies founded by him.