H. Moser & Cie Endeavour Centre Seconds Concept Purple Enamel 40mm Mens Watch

Ref. 1201-1200

The Concept line exists because Moser wanted to know what a dial looks like when everything unnecessary is taken away: no logo, no indices, no text of any kind. What remains here is a field of Grand Feu enamel fired at high temperature until it vitrifies into something closer to glass than paint, its purple deepening and lightening as it moves from centre to edge in the fumé gradient the manufacture calls Purple Haze. The hammered texture beneath that colour catches light at angles a flat dial never would, giving the surface a quiet life without breaking the silence of the design. At 11.2mm thick the case sits lower than you might expect from something rated to 30 metres, and the proportions read as a dress watch that happens to have a seconds hand rather than a sport watch with pretensions. The leaf-shaped hands are Moser's own, and the central seconds is finished in the same purple as the dial — a considered touch on a watch that has otherwise refused ornament. Beneath the exhibition caseback, the HMC 201 runs on Moser's in-house Straumann double hairspring, a component the manufacture produces itself, wound by a solid gold openworked rotor. The kudu leather strap is hand-stitched and dyed to match the dial exactly, so the watch reads as a single resolved object rather than a case that has been given a strap.

Reference

1201-1200

Brand

H. Moser & Cie

Case size

40mm

Case thickness

11.2mm

Case material

Stainless steel

Case shape

Round

Dial

Purple

Crystal

Sapphire

Movement

Automatic

Calibre

HMC 201

Water resistance

30m

Bracelet / strap

Leather strap

Clasp

Buckle

Retailer

Goldsmiths