H. Moser & Cie. extends its robust, “everyday wear” Pioneer collection with two new models equipped with in-house movements and distinguished by midnight blue fumé dials and cases combining 5N rose gold with black DLC-finished titanium. From simple to complex, here are the details on the Pioneer Centre Seconds and Pioneer Tourbillon.
H. Moser & Cie. Pioneer Centre Seconds (Ref. 3200-0903)
The Pioneer Centre Seconds, with Moser’s self-winding HMC 200 movement beating inside its 42.8-mm case, features a straightforward, though inarguably elegant, three-handed time display, with two partially skeletonized, leaf-shaped gold hands indicating the hour and minute on applied gold hour indices; both the hands and hour markers are treated with Super-LumiNova. The case has a curved sapphire crystal over the sunburst dial and a screw-in crown helping to ensure its sports-watch-worthy water resistance of 120 meters. Caliber HMC 200, visible through another sapphire window in the back, bears the stylistic hallmarks of Moser movements, including the emblematic double stripes on the bridges and mainplate. A large, engraved bidirectional rotor transfers energy to the barrel through a pawl winding system, reducing the amount of time required to wind the movement up to its full three days’ worth of power reserve. The Pioneer Centre Seconds comes on a sporty, perforated black rubber strap with a rose gold pin buckle, and retails for $19,900. The watch contains ...