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It’s well understood at this point that stone dials are experiencing a renaissance in all corners of the watch market. In fact, it might almost be kind of boring to point this out as we continue to see new spins on these dials released on an almost weekly basis. So it would be tempting to say that H. Moser is jumping on the stone dial bandwagon with their new Pop collection, the centerpiece of their Watches & Wonders 2025 strategy. But I don’t think that’s quite fair. Moser, for their part, has been ahead of the curve on stone dials. They’ve released a handful of extremely limited watches with dials crafted from jade, falcon’s eye, and other stones in recent years. And with the Pop collection watches, they’ve done something genuinely creative, combining multiple stones in each dial in unexpected ways across three different models.
The Pop collection exists in the Endeavour line, and makes use of all three watches on the platform: the Endeavour Small Seconds, Endeavour Tourbillon, and Endeavour Minute Repeater Tourbillon Concept. There are six groups of three watches, each making use of a combination of two stones. The stone pairings are Burmese jade and pink opal, lapis lazuli and lemon chrysoprase, and turquoise and coral. Each pairing is executed in two ways, with one stone being dominant in each. So, for example, there’s a Small Seconds model with Burmese jade in the main dial and pink opal in the sub seconds, and another with the opposite. For the tourbillon models, a single “O” ring of a single piece of stone forms an interior sector while the other piece of stone makes up the remainder of the dial. And for the Minute Repeater Tourbillon there’s one stone at the outer edge of the dial highlighting the repeater gongs, and another forming the main dial.
The end result, when taken together, is a striking and colorful collection of watches using a variety of stones that are not very common in watchmaking, even during this boom time for stone dials. It makes a great deal of sense, I think, for Moser to be working with stone dials as they are well suited to the brand’s take on minimalist design – these dials are best when the stone can be left to do the talking without extraneous branding, numerals, or hour markers. And the stones themselves are beautiful. Moser has a knack, it seems, for sourcing and choosing only the best examples of each stone. Favorites will be highly subjective of course, but I found myself drawn to the turquoise and coral combinations, particularly the Small Seconds with coral used for the main dial.
If I have one critique of the collection, it’s only that it’s really best observed as a collection. Naturally if you’re a Moser fan and lucky enough to snag any of these limited editions, you’ll likely be quite happy with your choice, but there is real intentionality to the inverse pairings, and part of the fun of seeing these in person was seeing how, for example, the coral/turquoise Small Seconds watches looked side by side, and how those two watches are in communication with their tourbillon counterparts.
Specs for these Endeavours line up with their counterparts in the Moser catalog. The Small Seconds and Tourbillon Concept are both cased in steel, and measure 38mm and 40mm respectively. The Minute Repeater Tourbillon is cased in rose gold and measures 38mm. Each of the Small Seconds models is limited to 28 pieces and priced at CHF 30,500. The Tourbillons are limited to 5 pieces each and priced at CHF 75,000. The Minute Repeater Tourbillons are all unique pieces priced at CHF 305,000. H. Moser
