H. Moser & Cie. Streamliner Small Seconds Lime Green Enamel: A Twelve-Firing Grand Feu Statement in Steel (Ref. 6500-1201)

Description

H. Moser & Cie. has dressed the compact Streamliner Small Seconds in something unusual for the brand: a true Grand Feu fumé enamel dial, in lime green, fired twelve times on a hammered base. Reference 6500-1201 is a boutique-only edition reserved for the manufacture's nine flagship locations — Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Menlo Park, Seoul, New Delhi, Singapore, Chengdu, and the newly opened Chicago boutique — at CHF 33,400 incl. taxes.

The Streamliner has carried fumé lacquer dials and even some early enamel since the family launched in 2020, but this is the first Streamliner Small Seconds to wear traditional vitreous enamel in a high-saturation green. The combination is rare in the industry: very few houses fire pigment-loaded enamel in lime green at this saturation, because the colour is notoriously unstable in the kiln. Each dial leaves the manufacture as a one-off — that's a structural truth, not marketing copy.

Design

The case is unchanged from the existing Streamliner Small Seconds: 39 mm diameter, 10.9 mm thick, stainless steel, with the cushion-shaped, fully integrated architecture that defines the family. Brushed and polished surfaces flow into the integrated bracelet, whose short, articulated links create the supple, almost fabric-like drape on the wrist that the Streamliner is known for. A domed sapphire crystal sits over the dial, a sapphire case-back over the movement, and the crown is screwed in for 120 m of water resistance.

The dial is the entire story. A hammered metal base creates a granular texture beneath the enamel; multiple lime-green pigments are applied and fused through twelve successive Grand Feu firings, each layer reacting to heat slightly differently. The result is a vibrant fumé gradient — brighter lime-yellow at the centre, deeper green at the periphery — with subtle tonal variation across each dial. Logo-less, with applied baton indices and a double index at 12 o'clock, hour and minute hands fitted with Globolight inserts, and a recessed small-seconds sub-dial at 6 o'clock whose circular pattern offers a quiet textural counterpoint to the enamel's fumé flow.

Specifications

Reference: 6500-1201
Case diameter: 39 mm
Case thickness: 10.9 mm (incl. crystal)
Case material: Stainless steel, cushion-shaped, integrated construction
Crystal: Domed sapphire
Case-back: Sapphire
Crown: Screw-down with "M" logo
Water resistance: 120 m
Dial: Lime Green fumé "Grand Feu" enamel — twelve firings on a hammered base; logo-less; applied indices; small seconds at 6 o'clock
Hands: Hour/minute with Globolight inserts
Movement: Calibre HMC 500 — in-house automatic, platinum micro-rotor
Frequency: 21,600 vph (3 Hz)
Jewels: 26
Winding: Bi-directional pawl winding
Hairspring: Straumann
Power reserve: 74 hours
Functions: Hours, minutes, small seconds
Bracelet: Integrated stainless steel, brushed and polished, three-blade folding clasp with micro-adjustment
Distribution: Boutique-exclusive — Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Menlo Park, Seoul, New Delhi, Singapore, Chengdu, Chicago
Price: CHF 33,400 (incl. taxes) — approx. CHF 30,900 excl. VAT

What's Exciting

This is the first Streamliner Small Seconds with a true Grand Feu fumé dial, and the choice of lime green is technically the harder route. Pigment-loaded green enamel breaks down at high firing temperatures more easily than blue or grey, which is why most enamellers — even the very good ones — keep their fumé palette in the cooler range. Twelve firings deep, on a hammered base, in this saturation, is the kind of dial work usually reserved for Patek's Rare Handcrafts or Vacheron's Métiers d'Art. Pricing those reaches CHF 70k–100k. Moser delivers the same craft, in steel, on the brand's most architecturally interesting case, at CHF 33,400.

The HMC 500 platinum-micro-rotor calibre is still the youngest automatic movement in the Moser family — first manufactured in-house in 2024 — and the small seconds layout is its natural home. Boutique-only distribution across nine cities will keep volume modest; given the unique-by-firing nature of the dial and the recently opened Chicago location getting an allocation, expect strong North American interest.

History

Founded in 1828 in Le Locle by Heinrich Moser, the Moser brand was effectively dormant for most of the 20th century before being relaunched in 2005 by the Meylan family, and acquired in 2012 by the privately held MELB Holding. The modern Moser identity — fumé dials, no logo, dry editorial humour ("Make Swiss Made great again") — was built under Edouard Meylan from 2013 onward.

The Streamliner debuted in 2020 as Moser's first integrated-bracelet sports watch, its cushion-shaped case a deliberate 21st-century interpretation of the chronographs of the 1950s. The line has steadily widened — Flyback Chronograph, Centre Seconds, Perpetual Calendar, Tourbillon — with the Small Seconds joining in 2024 as the platform for the new HMC 500. This Lime Green Enamel boutique edition is the first piece to combine the Streamliner Small Seconds case with traditional Grand Feu enamel, and the most adventurous colour palette the integrated-bracelet line has worn to date.