One of the pleasures of an event like Watches & Wonders is being able to see and experience watches that would never otherwise cross your path. Some of the rarest and most special watches in the world are here this week, and if you?re an enthusiast it?s basically a candy store of exotic treats. It?s easy to get a sugar high and subsequently fall into the coma that inevitably comes right after if you?re not careful. One type of watch hovers above the rest, seemingly plentiful at Watches & Wonders while being hyper rare outside the walls of the show. Of course, I?m talking about the tourbillon. 

Even for people who are in the watch industry, tourbillons are almost never seen in day to day life. Even if they aren?t exactly your thing from an aesthetic standpoint, there?s no denying the skill and craft involved in making a good one, and the labor toll and high price tag that results means that you just don?t come across them too often, even when dedicated watch people are mixing together. An event like Watches & Wonders though is really an exception, with high luxury brands coalescing for a single event to bring out their biggest flexes of the year. Those flexes, frequently, involve a tourbillon, and H. Moser has a particularly strong one this year with the Pioneer Cylindrical Tourbillon Skeleton.
The Pioneer Cylindrical Tourbillon Skeleton uses the same case platform as the Pioneer ?Mega Cool? that I reviewed last year. On that watch, I felt that the ca...