Just ahead of Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix, H. Moser & Cie. has dropped two new watches that take design cues from Alpine Motorsports.
The watchmaker just added a new dynamic duo to the Streamliner family: a skeletonized mechanical chronograph called the Streamliner Alpine Drivers Edition and the Streamliner Alpine Mechanics Edition. The latter is the more surprising of the pair, given that it’s a smart watch. Both watches are being sold together as a set for a cool $70,000, with 200 pieces available, Hodinkee reported.
The 42.3 mm Streamliner Alpine Drivers Edition offers up a new skeletonized dial that shows off the AgenGraphe-based HMC 700 movement and the self-winding rotor, which is usually masked from view under the dial. Here, you get some of the same details you’d see on other Streamliner chronographs with the same movement: centralized minutes and seconds hands, for one. But, as you’d expect, there are plenty of nods to Alpine. The bridges are shaped like a “V” similar to triangulated suspensions; the dial, meanwhile, is home to a design meant to mimic the rim of the team’s A110 wheel. Flip the watch over, and you can get a closer look at that movement, which is designed to evoke images of a driver’s helmet. A blue PVD-coated stainless-steel case and a rubber strap round out the piece.
A closer look at the Streamliner Alpine Drivers Edition.
H. Moser Cie.
As for the Streamliner Alpine Mechanics Edition, it’s a first for the brand. The watch certainly has the tools for the fast-paced F1 environment it’s made for: a GMT function with a country selector, a split-seconds chronograph, a perpetual calendar, and a designated F1 mode that offers up countdown capabilities and can give you live team alerts. The timepiece does have a more traditional side, too, with a steel Streamliner case, a blue rubber strap, and a Funky Blue fumé dial. To bring the timepiece to life, Moser tapped Sequent to create the new model’s hybrid analogue-digital caliber, according to Hodinkee. As a result, you’re getting a 12-month “power reserve” in time-only mode or what the brand is called “six Grand Prix weekends” in connected mode.
And it sounds like we can expect more from H. Moser and Alpine Motorsports. The watchmaker said this just the first project to emerge from their partnership.
Moser, of course, has dropped other sports-related watches before. At last year’s Miami Grand Prix, the watchmaker debuted the Cylindrical Tourbillon Skeleton, completed with a pink strap. And sports stars themselves have chosen to rock timepieces from the brand as of late. The Philadelphia Eagles’ running back Saquon Barkley donned an Endeavour Tourbillon Concept Vantablack at the Met Gala this year. Perhaps we’ll see some equally stylish athletes rocking the new Streamliners at the Spanish Grand Prix this weekend.
