H. Moser’s newest watch has a few tricks up its sleeve

The Swiss brand debuted an eye-catching timepiece this week that’s much more than the minimalist model it appears to be. The Endeavour Flyback Chronograph Dual Time Date is home to three complications—a flyback chronograph, a second time zone, and a date display—with no subdials to be found, showing off once again how the brand can create clean watches with plenty of complex, horological fun going on underneath the surface.

H. Moser achieved that streamlined display by centralised all its indicators on the dial, which is done up in a striking turquoise fumé. A red hand points to the chronograph seconds, while a rhodium-plated hand shows off the elapsed minutes on the white track. The center disc, done in a Blackor fumé (also with a sunburst pattern), is where the second time zone resides, with a white arrow marking the way. You can peek at the date via an aperture at 6 o’clock, too. Elsewhere on the dial, the hands are leaf-shaped and filled with Super-LumiNova, with a tachymeter perched on the flange.

Underneath its clean surface, the watch gets its power from its hand-wound caliber HMC 730, the new sibling to the HMC 902 (as seen on H. Moser’s ever-popular Streamliner) created in collaboration with watchmaker Agenhor. To bring HMC 730 to life, the duo actually removed the automatic winding system and the oscillating weight, a move that made it possible to add in the second time zone and date with that extra space. H. Moser kept some aspects of the HMC 902 in its new movement, such as the column wheel. And the caliber’s retrograde mechanism allows the elapsed minute hand to jump instantly using stored energy that’s released via a snail cam, making for better reading accuracy.

And for all its complexity, the Endeavour Flyback Chronograph Dual Time Date surprisingly has a rather user-friendly feature up its sleeve. The date here can be adjusted both forward and backwards without risk to the movement, a rare detail for a timepiece with all these sophisticated complications in tow.

As for the 44 mm case, it offers up chronograph pushers at 10 and 2 o’clock, as well as a screw-down crown at 4 o’clock that’s engraved with an “M.” Wrapping things up is the strap, done up in a gray alligator leather in a nubuck finish and lined with the same turquoise hue found on the dial.

The Endeavour Flyback Chronograph Dual Time Date, available now retails for US$74,400.

This story was first published on Robb Report USA. Featured photo by H. Moser