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Look beyond the Form..
Moser is pretty much a fully integrated manufacturer. The Swiss Alp, while being a “take” on the Apple watch, nevertheless is a great piece of engineering.
Caliber 324 used in the watch is a shaped form- movement with the Straumann escapement ( which can be easily interchangeable) and packing a solid 96 hour power reserve.
In fact this very movement did duty long ago in the forgotten Henry Double Spring, where it had one unique and extra feature of two vertically-stacked hairsprings for greater accuracy.
The double spring was too expensive to build and regulate and hence dropped from the HMC324 in its new Alp avatar.
Dimensions: 32.0 mm x 36.0mm / height: 4.80 mm
Frequency: 18,000 Vib/h
27 jewels
Power reserve: minimum 4 days
Hacking seconds
Moser teeth for all wheels and pinions
Interchangeable Moser escapement
Original Straumann Hairspring® with stabilised Breguet overcoil
Gold escapement wheel and pallet fork
Movement and components hand-finished and decorated.
More importantly the Swiss Alp will be limited by the stock of HMC324 caliber , which has been stated to be approx 400 only.
IMHO these pieces represent classic watchmaking.
regds
Apparently it's not new but I had never seen it before...
Somewhere around $22,000 which buys about 45 Apple connected devices.
Ohhhh 😬😬😬😬
I don’t know how I feel about the piece, in all honesty. Def a “rip” on Apple, but quite good looking. Iono 🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
I mean, hmmmm..
I get the whole minimalistic approach and all. Iono, unless the dial “pop” and color make up for it , I guess I am just unsure. Again, maybe the dial makes up for it, but it should, assuming the price is $$$$$$$
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I really can’t explain how I feel
When you spoke of “Apple Watch” wearers, I’ll leave it at that...
the dial is definitely unique and the "blackness" is beautiful
there's a moonphase version on this dial and i would have bought it if it was available back then
Personally... I don't think it is
The reason being is that yes, the dial is very black, but that doesn't fully mitigate the effects of the sapphire glass in front of the dial. Perhaps VB while wearing Polarized glasses would be a better experience but personally while I think its cool and...
Yes as I've wondered in another comment
Seems this confirms that the idea doesn't work in execution
This is their vantablack?
Seems like getting reflections off the crystal kind of defeats the whole purpose?
it's a difficult watch to photograph... for me at least
seeing the watch in person is different though
So much for "originality".
I can't wait to see their version of a Submariner. Maybe they will get really creative and make a watch out of dirt or cheese... Oh wait.
Look beyond the Form..
Moser is pretty much a fully integrated manufacturer. The Swiss Alp, while being a “take” on the Apple watch, nevertheless is a great piece of engineering. Caliber 324 used in the watch is a shaped form- movement with the Straumann escapement ( which can ...
imitation is the highest form of flattery
When the Apple watch came out, Apple received a lot of criticism on the designed. There was a lot of controversy that Apple will put the luxury watch industry out of business. Edouard (CEO of H. Moser) disagree and actually loved the design of the Apple w...
Mechanical Apple watch
It is strange to look at. Two watches, but can not place both. The desire to keep the Rolex submariner as the only real watch grows by the minute. Before, there are pocket watches.
A watch released a few years ago .
I do like the idea and design from Moser but not one i would love to own tbh although i am a big Moser fan
Gorgeous - happily have that over an Apple watch!
The good thing is that it'll probably fly under the radar as it get mistaken for an Apple watch. Cheers JML