H. MOSER & CIE.
Notable for ploughing its own uncompromising furrow, the independent Schaffhausen-based brand debuted several novelties at Watches and Wonders 2022, including the time-only, three-hand Endeavour Centre Seconds Concept (despite the name, it’s in full production). This stunner features a dazzling lime-green-fumé grand feu dial unadorned by indexes or brand marker, a 40 mm steel case, the HMC 200 automatic movement and a grey kudu-leather strap.
At the opposite end of the colour spectrum – if, indeed, black features on the spectrum at all – is the Streamliner Chronograph Blacker Than Black, whose Vantablack carbon-nanotube case coating absorbs almost all light that comes in contact with it. A veritable black hole on the wrist, it’s not in production yet, but knowing H. Moser & Cie., the brand is almost certainly working on it.
Equally provocative, the new H. Moser Cylindrical Tourbillon features skeletonised architecture incorporating a 60-second flying tourbillon combined with a cylindrical hairspring. With its smoked blue dial offset at 12 o’clock, slate grey bridges and open-worked rose-gold winding rotor, it’s a thing of beauty as much as ingenuity.