H Moser & Cie × The Armoury
Endeavour Small Seconds Total Eclipse
When Edouard Meylan, CEO of Swiss watchmaking company H Moser & Cie, and Mark Cho, founder of menswear boutique The Armoury, first began orbiting each other’s sphere in 2019, it was a shared appreciation for timepieces and tailored menswear that forged their friendship. It was, however, a case of opposites attracting. H Moser & Cie is known for its subversive and minimalist approach to watchmaking, while The Armoury’s ethos is rooted in a contemporary take on old-school sartorialism.
It turned out the stars were perfectly aligned, resulting in what might be the most elegant watch of the year: the 38mm by 9.9mm Endeavour Small Seconds Total
Eclipse (CHF23,900). It features H Moser & Cie’s signature unmarked Vantablack dial (so dark it absorbs 99.9 per cent of light) and is topped off with Cho’s favoured dot-style hour indices and classic Breguetstyle hands.
The combination of its underthe-radar surface and dressed-up indications proved to be a heavenly fit. A total of 56 models in steel were produced, half with a steel inner flange on the dial, the other half with a rose-gold flange to mimic the eclipse.
Fifty-five of these were sold out in less than eight hours, with one piece held back exclusively for the February issue of Robb Report in the US, which was sold to a subscriber.