Moser has long been a brand who’s unafraid to experiment and test boundaries, creating many designs that have elicited conversation or even debate. Now, the brand is making waves with a new digital timepiece. Here, a skeletonized dial reveals an architecture that combines digital technology with traditional watchmaking in the new Limited Edition Streamliner Off-Grid.
Moser first experimented with a hybrid analog/digital timepiece last year with the Streamliner Alpine Mechanics Edition. The model features a sober black dial evoking the same vibe as the brand’s trademark Vantablack, but instead of the innovative coating, this black backdrop reveals a digital display at 6 o’clock. Appearing to hover above is the classic analog component in Moser’s typical blue fume. The model was released as a part of the brand’s collaboration with Alpine Motorsports and marked a world first as a timepiece engineered specifically for the needs of a Formula 1 crew, helping them communicate faster, shave off those crucial fractions of a second, and overall streamline operations (pun intended) through the capabilities of the digital display. Now, we get the next evolution of this hybrid style design.
While Moser is certainly no stranger to rather out-there designs, the brand does have its own distinct design language, and even with this digital timepiece, we still see those stylistic signatures come through. At the base is, once again, the brand’s iconic Streamliner case with its pleasingly curved square or cushion shape. This time, it is rendered in larger oversized proportions clocking in at 42.6mm and executed in stainless steel with a PVD treatment in two colors. With those sleek lines as the framework, you have a bifurcated dial layout with a greater emphasis on the segmentation between the analog and digital than what we saw in the Streamliner Alpine Mechanics Edition.
Similarly, the analog portion is oriented at 12 o’clock. Here, Moser’s use of color and texture extends through its widely used fume finish in either red paired with a black PVD case or black paired with a blue PVD case and with the brand’s logo in transparent lacquer. Rather than the Vantablack-esque backdrop, Moser has opted for a skeletonized dial in the new Limited Edition Streamliner Off-Grid. This not only gives a glimpse at the movement but also more notably highlights the digital component. Rather than the digital features emerging from a black abyss, a rectangular display sits prominently at 6 o’clock.
So, why the name Off-Grid? Unlike the most popular digital design, the smartwatch, this model does not bombard you with an avalanche of notifications. There’s no race to optimal performance or obsession with data. The digital component of the Limited Edition Streamliner Off-Grid simply features a selection of functions designed to enhance the experience of the timepiece. Thanks to three push buttons at 2, 3, and 4 o’clock, the model offers a slew of functions including standard hours and minutes, a GMT complication with a country selector for all time zones, a split-seconds chronograph displaying 1/100th of a second, a perpetual calendar, a perpetual moonphase that updates every hour, sunrise and sunset times calculated to an accuracy of one minute and 30 seconds, a vibrating alarm, and a timer. In addition, there’s an “OFF-GRID” push-button at 9 o’clock for travel mode offering quick country selection and a dictionary of 10 useful words in 21 different languages. Powering the model is the caliber D10 developed with SEQUENT for H. Moser & Cie.
The new Streamliner Off-Grid is available today as a limited edition of 1000 pieces in each colorway, with each carrying a price tag of $4,900. For more information, head over directly to Moser.
