H. Moser & Cie. Venturer watches

The H. Moser & Cie. Venturer is a line of round watches with a vintage-inspired look, presented at Baselworld 2014. Heinrich Moser, born in Schaffhausen, founded the company in Saint Petersburg in 1828; since 2012 it has belonged to the Meylan family's MELB Holding. The first Venturer was the time-only Small Seconds: a narrow bezel, a convex dial with matching curved hands and a domed sapphire crystal over a 39 mm red gold case 12.5 mm thick, with argenté, ardoise or red gold fumé dials.

The Small Seconds runs on the HMC 327, a hand-wound calibre with a three-day power reserve shown on the movement side rather than the dial. It was the first Moser movement with a silicon escape wheel and pallet fork, and its hairspring comes from Precision Engineering, Moser's sister company. White gold followed at Baselworld 2015, including the 2327-0200 with black Roman numerals and blued steel leaf hands, Moser's first watch with a white lacquered, Roman numeral dial.

The Venturer XL is the same idea at 43 mm and 12.6 mm, which arrived in white gold with a blue fumé dial that darkens towards the edge (2327-0203). The Concept versions strip the dial of markers and logos, leaving colour and hands. The Concept Vantablack (2327-0410) has a dial coated in Vantablack, which absorbs nearly all incident light, and despite the name it is a regular production model, in a 39 mm red gold case. The XL Concept Dubai Edition (2327-1204) pairs a pale blue fumé dial with glossy black hands, made in nine pieces for the Dubai retailer Ahmed Seddiqi & Sons.

The name also covers complications. The Venturer Big Date is a 41.5 mm red gold watch whose date jumps instantly at midnight, read across two superimposed discs. The Venturer Tourbillon Dual Time adds a tourbillon and a second time zone in a 41.5 mm case on the HMC 802; its skeletonised versions in sapphire cases are unique pieces on the HMC 803.