H. Moser & Cie. introduces the Pioneer Cylindrical Tourbillon Skeleton Aventurine Saquon Barkley, developed with the American football player and limited to 97 pieces, a tribute to his year of birth.
When Barkley first discovered the H. Moser & Cie. collections, one watch immediately stood out to him: the Pioneer Cylindrical Tourbillon Skeleton. His edition keeps its fully skeletonised, three-dimensional architecture, and adds an aventurine sub-dial that appears to float above the mechanics like a window onto a star-filled sky.
“What inspires us about Saquon is not only what he achieves on the field. It's everything that comes before it: the unseen hours of training, the discipline, perseverance and humility. Beyond the athlete is an authentic, curious and genuinely inspiring person. It's a philosophy that feels very familiar to us,” says Edouard Meylan, CEO of H. Moser & Cie.
The 42.8mm steel case is water-resistant to 120 metres. Inside, the HMC 811 manufacture calibre is driven by a cylindrical hairspring tourbillon, the hairspring entirely handcrafted by the specialists at Precision Engineering AG. One detail waits for the dark: all the indices feature Super-LumiNova®, but the numerals 2 and 6 glow in a different colour, after Barkley’s number 26.
The Basics
- Brand H. Moser & Cie.
- Model Pioneer Cylindrical Tourbillon Skeleton Aventurine Saquon Barkley Edition
- Reference 3811-1205
- Case Steel, 42.8mm, topped by a slightly domed sapphire crystal
- Height 15.3mm with sapphire crystal; 11.7mm without
- Crown Screw-in, engraved “M”
- Case back See-through
- Water resistance 12 ATM
- Dial Skeletonised, aventurine domed sub-dial, indices in Super-LumiNova®
- Hands Hour and minute hands with Globolight® inserts
- Strap White rubber, steel pin buckle engraved with the Moser logo
- Limited edition 97 pieces
The Movement
- Calibre HMC 811, automatic, fully skeletonised, three-dimensional
- Functions Hours and minutes
- Tourbillon One-minute flying tourbillon at 6 o’clock with skeletonised bridge
- Hairspring Cylindrical, with two Breguet overcoils
- Power reserve Minimum 74 hours
- Frequency 21,600vph
- Jewels 28
- Components 171
- Dimensions 34.0mm (15 lignes), 5.5mm high without hands or tourbillon
Images courtesy of H. Moser & Cie.
