The Master of Minimalist Watches Just Launched a Bare-Bones Skeleton

H. Moser & Cie. has made minimalism its signature, and it takes the aesthetic style further than anyone else.

This is the brand that has crafted dials out of the blackest material on Earth to create a surreal void on your wrist. The brand that creates tourbillon minute repeaters with no markings to be found. The brand that makes a perpetual calendar that looks like a simple time-and-date watch. The brand that often leaves its name and logo off its dials, or at most, will print them in clear lacquer so they’re practically invisible.

So when Moser decides to make a skeleton watch, you know the brand is going to strip the movement down to only its barest essentials, and that’s what we have on the stunning new Endeavour Tourbillon Skeleton.

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Nothing to hide

We’ve seen the Tourbillon Skeleton format from Moser before. The brand’s integrated sports watch, the Streamliner, comes in a Tourbillon Skeleton version, as well as an even more impressive Cylindrical Tourbillon Skeleton version, which is also an option for the brand’s everyday watch, the Pioneer.

But this marks the first time Moser has given the treatment to the Endeavour, the brand’s dressiest watch and typically the home of its most minimalist designs.

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The watch is powered by Moser’s HMC 814 calibre, which is the same automatic movement that powers the Streamliner Tourbillon Skeleton. Its one-minute tourbillon, positioned at 6:00, uniquely features two hairsprings. Manufactured in-house, a rarity, the double hairspring helps to cancel out the effects of gravity on the escapement. So, when a double hairspring is combined with a tourbillon, as it is here, the escapement is so anti-gravity it might as well have come from outer space.

As I stated up top, virtually everything on this skeletonized movement has been stripped away. The mainplate is effectively just a network of anthracite-coated bridges, while the tourbillon bridge, solid 5N red gold rotor, and the mainspring barrel have all been hollowed out to within an inch of their life.

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There’s not a single gear in the movement that isn’t exposed. Ever wonder how a keyless works mechanism works? Well, it’s on full display here for you to see. If you buy this watch, I hope you like the look of your wrist, because you’re going to be seeing a lot of it.

The movement is obviously the marquee attraction here, but the case and dial are no slouch. It’s your standard, gorgeously sculpted 40mm Endeavour case in 5N red gold, which measures just 10.7mm thick and boasts a screw-down crown. The dial, if you can even call it that, just looks like an extension of the movement.

There’s an anthracite PVD outer flange with cantilevered red gold indices floating over the movement, and anthracite bridges supporting red gold leaf-shaped hour and minute hands. I’m a little surprised Moser even added indices here — many Endeavours lack them — but I’m glad they did, because the watch would be very difficult to read without them.

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Pricing and availability

Moser. Gold case. Skeletonized tourbillon in-house movement. Yeah, I don’t have to tell you that this is an expensive watch. It clocks in just a hair under six figures at $99,600, but that’s before tax, so you might as well call this a six-figure watch.

The watch is sold on a hand-stitched, suede-like brown alligator nubuck leather strap with a 5N red gold buckle (class, class, class) and is available now from Moser retailers. The Endeavour Tourbillon Skeleton is non-limited, but like all Mosers, it should be considered very rare.

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H. Moser & Cie. Endeavour Tourbillon Skeleton

Specs

Case Size	40mm
Movement	H. Moser & Cie. Cal. HMC814 automatic tourbillon
Water Resistance	30m

• $99,600 at H. Moser & Cie.

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