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Hands-On The Latest Irreverent Piece From The Brand That Made A Watch From Cheese  

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H.Moser may share its hometown of Schaffhausen with another very Swiss watch marque, but it feels a world away from the traditional centers of Swiss watchmaking – Geneva, Neuchatel, the Vallee de Joux. This distance, both physical and metaphysical, confers upon Moser a mischievous independence. After all, this is the brand that gave the world a watch made of Vacherin Mont d’Or cheese. Then it created a design (which was not ultimately made) that cobbled together a kitchen sink of treasured Swiss icons. Its CEO has even broached the idea (blasphemy!) of taking Moser across the border to neighboring Germany.


The company is now capping one of its most highly publicized product lines, the Swiss Alp Watch, with a 50-piece limited edition featuring a dial made from Vantablack, one of the darkest man-made materials in the world, absorbing up to 99.965% of visible light. Developed at first for scientific applications, the material has gone on to see further use in artistic applications under exclusive license to the artist Anish Kapoor. There have also been luxury applications, including watches. Moser has recently leaned into using Vantablack for its dials, dropping a trio of Vantablack-clad watches last year.Replica swiss watches


Applying Vantablack to a surface has the effect of causing form, or at least one's ability to perceive it visually, to more or less melt away. A detailed sculpture can be rendered a mere silhouette, and a simple disk can be recast as an otherworldly portal to another dimension. Seeing emptiness in an object one knows to possess form can be eerily disorienting, especially when you take two examples of the same object and coat one and not the other.

 


From a distance, the 44mm x 38.2mm x 10.5mm Swiss Alp watch resembles a certain world-famous horological design (surely you can guess which one), and it becomes a laugh-out-loud joke when you see the unusual running seconds indicator down at the 6 o’clock position, which looks just like a digital display in the midst of an update.


Meanwhile, the hands are very traditional and blackened, but because of the Vantablack dial's incredible capacity to absorb light, they seem to take on a lighter coloration and float above the display.


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Flip over the watch, and the payoff is a beautifully finished manually wound movement beating at a stately 18,000 vph with a power reserve of 100 hours. It's created, as you'd expect, in-house at H. Moser. That running seconds indicator is fully mechanical, and you can only see it because of perforations in the Vantablack dial. IWC Replica 


Underneath all the humor, irreverence, and good-natured fun, Moser is a seriously high-end watchmaker. It's important not to forget that. These guys make their own in-house hairsprings, for God's sake. This may be the final Swiss Alp watch, and as such, it represents the end of an era, but it also leaves you asking a tantalizing question: What will they think of next?

The H. Moser Swiss Alp Watch Final Upgrade 38.2mm x 44mm stainless steel case with DLC coating. 10.5mm thick. Sapphire crystals front and back. Hand-wound HMC 324 Manufacture caliber beating at 18,000 vph and running in 27 jewels. Minimum power reserve of four days. Running seconds / running indicator at six o'clock. Hand-stitched alligator leather strap with steel pin buckle. $30,800.

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on Mar 15, 21