The new H. Moser & Cie. Perpetual Calendar Tantalum Blue Enamel combines a brilliant blue dial with the brands first ever tantalum case. Discovered in 1802, tantalum is a highly dense and extremely strong metal with anti-corrosive properties. It can be easily drawn and worked. Moser took advantage of these properties to produce a 42-mm dark grey tantalum case enhanced by bluish reflections from the dial. Created using a painstaking, multi-step process, each dial is unique. Four different color pigments are applied to a textured disc to create the ombré effect. The colors must be applied one by one to ensure that they oxidize and meld together, without pixelating, when heated. H. Moser & Cie. fires the dial twelve times to create its signature fumé effect. To showcase the ‘Abyss Blue’ enamel dial, Moser removed their logo, the day-of-the-week indicator, and all indices except the 12 and 6 o’clock hour markers. The dial retains the polished leaf hands, date window at 3 o’clock, small seconds at 6, power reserve indicator at 9, and small triangle hand in the center to indicate the month. The in-house HMC 800 hand-wound perpetual calendar movement powers the watch, and is visible through the sapphire crystal case back.
Endeavour Perpetual Calendar Tantalum Blue Enamel ($82,500.00) – h-moser.com
