Moser was founded in 1928, but the brand’s current incarnation was re-launched in 2005. The brand produces roughly 2,000 watches per year and is known for producing many of its own watch components and its often humorous take on watch tropes and trends.

Diameter: 43mm

Lug-to-lug: 51.1mm

Thickness: 14.3mm

Lug width is: 22mm

The watch is listed as having 120 meters of water resistance.

This is a stainless steel watch but it has a black DLC coating. The sides of the case, extending onto the lugs, are scalloped with very pronounced ridges that could be described as severe and industrial in aesthetic. The other side of the watch features the crown, also blackened, and signed with the Moser letter M. The crown has three positions. In position 0 the watch crown is screwed in and the timepiece has its full 120 meters of water resistance. In position one the movement can be hand-wound. And in position 2 the watch hacks and the time can be set.

Looking at the front of this watch one can see a blue dial. Moser officially calls this shade of blue funky blue, and as is common on many Moser watches it is applied in a fumé style, so it darkens the closer to the edge you look. The hour and minute hands are a modified leaf style that are partially skeletonized, whereas the seconds hand is a needle style with a skeletonized counterweight. Beneath the twelve o’clock position is the Moser brand label and that is the only text on this dial. As noted earlier this watch is quite thick for a time-only model, and a lot of that has to do with a very significantly domed sapphire crystal protecting the dial. Close to the bezel there is a lume marker for each hour marker. The hour and minute hands are also lumed, and Super-LumiNova is the lume of choice for this watch.

The watch does have a display caseback showing off the HMC 200 movement. This is an automatic movement with a bi-directional winding system that operates at 3 Hertz, has 27 jewels, and offers approximately 72 hours of power reserve. It uses a free-sprung balance. Finishing is also noteworthy as the movement has black-polished screws and an engine-turned baseplate. The bridges have polished edges and double-crested Côtes de Genève on top. The rotor is black with a sunburst effect in its center.

Putting this watch on my timegrapher, I get an average across all six positions of +1.125 seconds per day. The range of readings were -2 seconds per day to +3.25 seconds per day.

Here you can see what the watch looks like on my wrist. My wrist size is approximately 6.75 inches. The strap is made of vulcanized rubber and features a blackened pin buckle made out of titanium, and in an unusual case I’m actually in the very last hole on the strap, something I’ve never faced before. Here is the watch outside on my wrist, so you can get a sense of how it looks in more natural lighting. The fumé dial really plays with the light in any bright environment.

My overall thoughts:

The positives:

• Comfortable to wear

• Very accurate

• One of the best dials I’ve ever seen

The negatives:

• Strap is more for larger wrists

• The domed sapphire rules this out for smaller cuffed shirts

I don’t have much in the way of complaints. This is a bigger watch so you need to go in expecting that, but it wears relatively compact for its size, likely thanks to the curved springbars for the strap. Even though my wrist size is smaller than average I normally do not need to use the last hole option on a strap, but I do here and the watch is still a bit loose, so it’s something to be aware of. While there is a lot of sophistication to this watch’s look remember it is a sports watch. While I imagine this could look pretty good on leather straps the domed sapphire crystal means this is not just going to slide under any cuff you throw at it and will thus limit its viability in those scenarios.

Otherwise though, it’s been pretty impressive. The movement is more accurate than I expected and the watch wears well even with the strap not being at my ideal tightness. The highlight here, as is the case with many Moser watches, is the dial. I think Moser has the best fumé dials in the business, and this watch has a format where it is easy to read the time but is so minimalist that most of the dial is just there to let you appreciate this funky blue fumé colorway.