H. Moser & Cie. Endeavour Retrograde Seconds

Moser hides its newest trick at six o'clock, where a slim seconds hand sweeps a 30-second arc and snaps back to zero.

Quiet Case, Loud Hand

The Endeavour is the most restrained watch Moser makes, a 40mm steel dress piece with curved lugs, grooved flanks and no lume anywhere. That calm makes the new complication land harder. At six o'clock a slim hand travels a black arc marked in gold, reaches thirty and flies back to zero in a single snap, twice every minute.

Blackor Fumé

The dial is Moser's signature smoked gradient, pale at the center and fading toward black at the edge over a sunburst finish. Faceted applied indexes and leaf hands handle the hours and minutes, and the logo is printed in transparent lacquer so it only shows up when the light catches it. At 11.2mm thick, it slides under a shirt cuff with room to spare.

The Engine

Inside sits the automatic HMC 252, an evolution of Moser's HMC 250 fitted with a retrograde module developed by Agenhor. A double snail cam drives the jump, a two-tone disc tells you which half of the minute you are in, and a tungsten rotor keeps three days of reserve topped up. It arrives on a night blue nubuck alligator strap for $37,700.