Description
The H. Moser & Cie. Endeavour Flyback Chronograph Dual Time Date is the Schaffhausen independent's late-May 2026 statement piece, and a textbook example of how Moser likes to operate: a watch that looks almost disarmingly simple from across the room, yet conceals a genuinely new movement and three complications under its fumé dial. It combines a column-wheel flyback chronograph, a second time-zone display and a date, all wrapped in the brand's signature minimalist Endeavour case.
What makes this more than another fumé-dial Moser is the engine. The watch debuts the brand-new, hand-wound Calibre HMC 730, developed specifically for this model in partnership with movement specialist Agenhor. Priced at CHF 74,500 (including taxes), it sits firmly in high-watchmaking territory while resolutely refusing to shout about it — exactly the Moser way.
It is aimed at the collector who wants serious mechanical substance without the visual busyness that usually comes with a triple-complication watch: a quiet flex for people who already know.
Design
The 42 mm polished stainless-steel case is a classic Endeavour profile — clean, rounded, and free of distracting detail — measuring 13.2 mm in height. Rounded-rectangular chronograph pushers flank the case at 10 and 2 o'clock, while a screw-down crown engraved with the Moser "M" sits at 4 o'clock, a subtle reorientation that keeps the dial side uncluttered. The dial itself pairs a turquoise fumé base with a contrasting Blackor fumé central disc, both finished with a sunburst brushing that shifts dramatically with the light.
True to Moser tradition, the layout is stripped of superfluous text and chapter rings, letting the fumé gradient and the three functional displays do all the talking. The result is a chronograph that reads, at a glance, like a time-only dress watch — which is precisely the point.
Specifications
- Reference: 1730-1200
- Case material: stainless steel
- Case diameter: 42 mm
- Case thickness: 13.2 mm
- Crown: screw-down, at 4 o'clock, engraved with the Moser "M"
- Pushers: rounded-rectangular, at 10 and 2 o'clock
- Dial: turquoise fumé base with Blackor fumé central disc, sunburst finishing
- Movement: Calibre HMC 730 — new, developed with Agenhor, hand-wound
- Chronograph: column wheel; horizontal clutch with micro-toothed friction wheel
- Components: 383
- Jewels: 49
- Power reserve: minimum 72 hours
- Functions: flyback chronograph, dual time (second time zone), date
- Price: CHF 74,500 (incl. taxes) / USD 74,400 / GBP 65,000 (incl. VAT)
- Availability: H. Moser & Cie. collection, 2026
What's Exciting
This is the most editorially significant watch of the cycle, and the reason is the movement. Far too many "new" chronographs are simply new cases around an existing base calibre; the HMC 730 is a ground-up, hand-wound construction co-developed with Agenhor — arguably the most respected independent movement house working today — built around a column wheel and a horizontal clutch with a micro-toothed friction wheel. Packing a flyback chronograph, a true second time zone and a date into 383 components, while still delivering a ≥72-hour reserve, is serious engineering.
And then Moser does the most Moser thing imaginable: hides all of it. No tachymetre scale, no busy sub-dial clutter, no logo overload — just two fumé discs and a case you could wear to a board meeting. For collectors who value substance over signalling, this is close to the platonic ideal of a stealth-complication watch.
History
H. Moser & Cie. traces its name to Heinrich Moser, who founded the original house in 1828, but the modern brand is a product of its 2000s revival under the Meylan family and the Moser/Precision Engineering group, which gave it in-house balance-spring capability — a rarity at any price. Over the past decade Moser has built a reputation on two pillars: hypnotic fumé dials and provocative, often minimalist, statements (the logo-free "Concept" series chief among them).
The Endeavour line has long been Moser's most classical, round-cased family, and its collaborations with Agenhor — whose AgenGraphe architecture reinvented the modern chronograph — have produced some of the brand's most technically interesting watches. The Endeavour Flyback Chronograph Dual Time Date and its new HMC 730 calibre extend that partnership into a multi-complication piece that stays true to Moser's understated design creed.
Sources
- Monochrome Watches — Introducing: H. Moser & Cie. Endeavour Flyback Chronograph Dual Time Date
- Oracle of Time — H. Moser & Cie. Launch Endeavour Flyback Chronograph Dual Time Date
- Robb Report — H. Moser Unveils Its Endeavour Flyback Chronograph Dual Time Date
- Worn & Wound — H. Moser Introduces the Endeavour Flyback Chronograph Dual Time Date
- Deployant — New: Moser Endeavour Flyback Chronograph Dual Time Date