SpotlightH. Moser & Cie. Elevate The Streamliner Collection With The Latest Concept Minute Repeater Tourbillon
The ultra-luxury, ultra-minimalistic Swiss watchmaking brand H. Moser & Cie. now introduces the “queen of complications,” as the brand calls it, in their best-selling streamliner collection with a gorgeous blue enamel dial
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The Streamliner by H. Moser & Cie., originally introduced in 2020, is famous for its unique cushion-shaped case, no logos, and the wave-shaped bracelet links, among many other reasons. In just four short years, the collection has seen tourbillons, perpetual calendars, and skeletonised versions and has quickly become a fan favourite. To keep the love pouring in, the Swiss watchmakers have climbed up the complication ladder and added the minute repeater with a tourbillon visible at six in the new Streamliner Concept Minute Repeater Tourbillon.
Despite having done something similar with the Endeavour collection five years ago, the offering of a minute repeater and a tourbillon within the Streamliner collection, along with its gorgeous blue enamel dial, adds a completely different charm to it, vastly different from its Endeavour counterpart.
The Streamliner Concept Minute Repeater Tourbillon: A Grand Complication Within The Frame Of A Sports Watch
If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of Only Watch, it’s essentially a charity auction established in 2005 where luxury watch brands create and donate unique timepieces to be auctioned off. The reason why we’re telling you this is because recently H. Moser & Cie. partnered with MB&F to create the Streamliner Pandamonium, which featured the minute repeater complication in the Streamliner case.
The Streamliner Concept Minute Repeater Tourbillon may well have been born due to the positive feedback received on the Streamliner Pandamonium. Devoid of any indices or a logo, the showstoppers remain the minute repeater’s hammers and gongs and the flying tourbillon at six o’clock. As a result of it being inside the sturdy, sporty case of the Streamliner, the timepiece offers 50m of water resistance.
In order to make sure the minute repeater was audible enough, the cushion-shaped steel case has been optimised, with the case middle widened to the maximum in order to accommodate the movement while also allowing enough space to create a soundbox. The two hammers hit the visible gongs on demand, chiming the hours, quarter hours, and minutes.
The one-minute flying tourbillon is visible behind a skeletonised bridge at six o’clock. Despite the obvious attractions—the minute repeater and the tourbillon—the ‘grand feu’ Aqua Blue enamel dial is what brings it all together.
Minimaslitic Brilliance At It’s Best: The ‘Grand Feu’ Enamel Dial Of The Streamliner Concept Minute Repeater Tourbillon
Recently, we saw this gorgeous ‘grand feu’ enamel dial in action with the Streamliner Small Seconds Blue Enamel. In our opinion, which also largely seems to be the consensus, the result was quite simply H. Moser & Cie’s best-looking Streamliner yet.
It’s almost as if the brand took their best-looking dial and combined it with the most intriguing complication and movement, in an attempt to leave no stone unturned in making the Concept Minute Repeater Tourbillon the Streamliner yet. It’s a pity it’s limited to only 50 pieces worldwide.
The dial of this gorgeous timepiece is crafted in ‘grand feu’ enamel. It starts with a pattern engrained onto a gold base, as if hammered; then, four different colour pigments are washed, finely crushed, and then applied to create an ombré effect. A translucent “Grand Feu” enamel dial must be fired twelve times in total to create the signature H. Moser & Cie. fumé effect. Each dial is unique.
A 42.3mm stainless steel case houses the dial, which is 14.4mm thick. The slightly recessed middle of the case is adorned with vertical, satin-brushed finishes and is framed by two polished bevels.
Powering this beast of a timepiece is H. Moser & Cie.’s new in-house HMC 905 calibre. The movement features an anthracite grey finish, with a few parts skeletonised, opening up its mechanism for full view. The movement offers the timepiece a power reserve of 90 hours.
The brand always seems to be one-upping itself before we can get over the previous novelties. It’s a pure delight in more ways than one, firstly, due to their expert craftsmanship and the boldness to continually offer contemporary pieces after another. Moreover, their “concept” motif, which features no indices, logos, or inscriptions, never seems to get old.
