H. Moser & Cie. New Watch Review

H. Moser & Cie. New Watch Review

H. Moser & Cie. New Watch Review

As the watch industry has lengthy been associated with Europe

H. Moser & Cie. New Watch Review

A number of its best watchmakers discovered that there is good business to be carried out in other areas around the globe - think Jaquet Droz in China for example. One of these simple was Heinrich Moser, who made the decision to include a wrist watch brand not even close to his Schaffhausen home within the Swiss mountain tops, in Russia (even though the watches remained as produced in Le Locle). Heinrich Moser was selling his Swiss-Made watches in the own stores in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and Kiev, as well as using a network of independent retailers inside the Russian Empire and across the Silk Road. He provided the Imperial Court and also the Russian army. Heinrich Moser was hugely effective, with almost 500,000 watches offered in the lifetime.

The Russian story doesn’t finish there

In 1874, upon the dying of Heinrich Moser, his widow handed charge of the Le Locle factory to Paul Girard, and entrusted the Russian company to Cornelius Winterhalter, who became a member of forces with Octave Meylan (Octave Meylan is the one and only the truly amazing-grandfather of Edouard Meylan, the present Chief executive officer of H. Moser & Cie. whose family purchased the organization this year). At the beginning of the 20th century, Carl Fabergé, goldsmith towards the tsars, outfitted the majority of his table clocks with H. Moser movements. The 1917 October Revolution brought towards the nationalisation of H. Moser & Cie., which in turn stopped buying and selling completely in the finish from the 1970s. a century have passed because this rather dramatic moment within the history of the trademark, that is now more alive than ever before. It was most likely time to provide something to keep in mind these Russian roots.

With this new watch, h. Moser & Cie. Venturer XL Stoletniy Krasniy, the company plays using its usual codes of simplicity (not saying minimalism) with an legendary colour for that brand: red - even when here, it's nothing related to the Swiss flag. The bottom watch is familiar because it was already used formerly for many editions, nevertheless it usually includes a small second at 6 - like the Venturer Small Seconds XL Wholesomeness Cosmic Eco-friendly. Here, we've again a wonderfully nude watch: no date, no second (a central one), no indices, no Swiss-made mention (obviously)… Actually, little else compared to dial and 2 hands.

The obvious focus on this H. Moser & Cie. Venturer XL Stoletniy Krasniy is around the red fumé dial

Having a red colour that progressively darkens when approaching the periphery from the dial - as well as on the particular emblem that's been printed. Indeed, to become in conjuction with the Russian theme, Moser chose for that company’s original Cyrillic emblem - having a specific font along with a black and yellow style. Finalizing the initial type of this watch is really a military-eco-friendly fabric strap.

H. Moser & Cie. New Watch Review

The remainder remains known in the brand: a 43mm stainless situation, using the usual shape utilized by the company, and in a in-house manufactured movement, the HMC 327, with 3-day power reserve, Moser balance wheel and original Straumann Hairspring and also the interchangeable controlling organ. Finishing is, as always, enjoyable, with polished bevels and Moser ribbings on the top from the bridges.