Mystery military Swiss watch with a 1 jewel movement stamped “Mohertus Trading Co.” It has a beautiful black military dial with contrasted white hands. The case is really well designed, and looks great from every angle. This is just pure minimalism in watch art. History: Mohertus Trading Co. sold relatively low grade movements Swiss or Austrian Made or other places in the 1960’s. They were around as recently as the 1970s. The company is also known to watch collectors as the vintage licensee for various “Dollar” fun watches displaying Disney’s ‘Peter Pan’ and ‘Tinkerbell’ figures, for Walter Lantz Woody Woodpecker watches, for Babe Ruth watches, and as a U.S importer and distributor of 'Engorsele Watches', 'Florin Watches', 'Rouan Watches', and 'Nouvella Clocks'. These types of watches and movements were designed for the "common man" with an eye towards rugged, simple and inexpensive. Like vintage Timex movements, they are hard to fix if they break, but if nothing is broken, they work with no problem. It certainly looks beautiful! Comments are closed.
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Old Time WatchesI enjoy collecting mechanical (manual wind and automatic) and early electric and quartz timepieces. I take great pleasure in researching and writing about the companies and people that created these beautiful watches. PF
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