H. Moser & Cie x Alpine Motorsports

Tom Austin

• H. Moser & Cie has revealed their newest pair of racing-inspired watches, together with their racing accomplice, Formulation 1 workforce Alpine.
• The Streamline Alpine Drivers Version is a mechanical chronograph, skeletonised to indicate off its Agenhor split-seconds calibre.
• The Streamliner Alpine Mechanics Version combines mechanical and digital features, developed in collaboration with Alpine F1 engineers.

Motorsports and watches have at all times had a deep connection, and with good cause, as a big proportion of watch fanatics additionally appear to have a penchant for issues with wheels and engines, too. As such, it’s widespread for manufacturers to provide automotive-inspired watches both by their very own volition or in partnership with producers. Regrettably, it’s much more widespread for these sorts of watches to fall into the lure of the automotive/watch stereotype by merely including a splash of color and making them out of titanium or carbon fibre. Typically, manufacturers get this recipe proper, like Tudor’s current Black Bay Chrono “Carbon 25”; nevertheless, once you zoom out, they typically miss the purpose of deeper collaboration. H. Moser & Cie is one such model attacking this trope from a really totally different angle, with their current partnership with Alpine Motorsports.

The primary results of this ongoing alliance was the H. Moser & Cie Streamliner Cylindrical Tourbillon Skeleton Alpine from 2024, and this weekend previous on the Formulation 1 Spanish Grand Prix, their newest creations had been introduced: the Streamliner Alpine Drivers Version and the Streamliner Alpine Mechanics Version. The primary mannequin is a real horologically derived motorsports chronograph, as you’ll count on, whereas the Mechanics Version is one thing fully totally different, developed with direct involvement from Alpine’s race engineers.

H. Moser & Cie x Alpine Motorsports Streamliner Alpine Drivers Version

The Streamliner Alpine Drivers Version is a skeletonised, futuristic flyback chronograph, designed with Alpine’s aesthetics and motorsport in thoughts. The stainless-steel case is blue PVD-coated, matching Alpine’s model colors, and options the UFO-like form of the Streamliner, with softly squared-off polished sides contrasting the radially brushed higher face. At 42.3mm in diameter and 14.2mm thick, the proportions are chunky, however, like many watches on this class, subtlety is just not a excessive precedence.

A screw-down crown and domed sapphire crystal present the watch with 120 metres of water resistance, permitting for a post-race cool-off within the ice tub with none points, even with the big chronograph pushers. The strap can also be secure for that, because it comes full with a white rubber strap built-in into the case form, and a blue PVD-coated metal pin buckle.

The Alpine theme runs deeper than only a color scheme, with the skeletonised dial that includes stylised bridges impressed by the suspension techniques of a race automotive. From the entrance, the design enhances Alpine’s current design language of their upcoming hypercar. Additionally, the rotor, unusually positioned on the dial facet of the watch, is a nod to the edges on the favored Alpine A110 sports activities automotive. Once more, that is one thing we’ve seen earlier than in watches, nevertheless it’s executed tastefully right here.

The bizarre palms are completed in blue to match the case and have placing Globolight inserts for legibility at nighttime. These are paired with a blue central seconds hand and a elegant chronograph hand, consistent with the remainder of the Streamliner chronograph vary. Lastly, the remainder of the dial is completed with a darkish gray outer ring, finishing the hours and minute tracks, and options an outer rehaut that doubles as a tachymetric scale. The result’s a surprisingly legible chronograph, which is kind of spectacular contemplating the skeletonisation.

Behind the front-facing rotor, the self-winding Calibre HMC 700 sits in full view via the skeletonised dial, and is much more visually spectacular when seen via the sapphire case again. This skeletonised flyback chronograph motion was developed alongside motion magicians Agenhor, and options twin barrels to supply a 72-hour energy reserve. It’s a well-executed chronograph column wheel chronograph, that includes a two-stage horizontal clutch and friction wheel to minimise jerking of the chronograph hand when working. Lastly, the motion options the signature 45° Moser stripes, and the bridges are completed in anthracite gray rhodium plating.

H. Moser & Cie x Alpine Motorsports Streamliner Alpine Mechanics Version

The Streamliner Alpine Drivers Version is a shocking motorsports-themed chronograph, which you’d count on from the model. Nonetheless, it is just accessible as a part of a boxed set, paired with the Streamliner Alpine Mechanics Version, and this one is a major break from the norm. The Mechanics Version is a linked watch, and in contrast to an everyday smartwatch, it utilises each mechanical and digital shows to behave as a instrument for race engineers. At 12 o’clock, you’ve gotten the everyday Moser mechanical dial, albeit smaller than regular, that includes a gradient blue end and placing lumed palms and hour markers. Under, nevertheless, sits an LCD show providing motorsport-centric features, similar to pit alerts, race countdowns, GMT perform, perpetual calendar, and a split-seconds chronograph.

The 2 features of the watch function along with a hybrid motion referred to as the Calibre D10, developed together with Swiss model SEQUENT, which specialises in mechanical watches with built-in digital exercise trackers. It affords Bluetooth connectivity with iOS and Android, encompasses a one-year energy reserve in time-only mode, and contains vibration alerts to inform you when the following race is about to begin.

The Mechanics Version options the identical Streamliner case design because the Drivers Version, albeit in a barely bigger configuration, measuring 42.6mm in diameter and 14.4mm in thickness. Once more, this mannequin is in stainless-steel; nevertheless, it lacks the blue PVD coating of its sibling. It’s, in fact, lacking a crown, however as an alternative has 4 push buttons to function the digitally managed motion and pc features.

These features aren’t simply one thing cobbled collectively; they had been, in actual fact, developed together with Alpine’s race engineers, deciding on features that might truly be beneficial in a motorsports setting. Whereas it could appear comparatively arbitrary, that is undoubtedly an enchancment within the general theme of motorsports-derived watches. Though on this case, there are not any exercise monitoring features on the Mechanics Version, maybe with good cause, nevertheless it does appear to be a missed alternative for extra performance. Lastly, the watch is completed with a particular blue rubber strap, built-in into the case’s design and is closed with a metal pin buckle.

H. Moser & Cie x Alpine Motorsports Streamliner Alpine Drivers & Mechanics Editions pricing and availability

The H. Moser & Cie x Alpine Motorsports Streamliner Alpine Drivers & Mechanics Editions can be found as a set, with the Drivers Version restricted to 200 items and the Mechanics Version restricted to 500 (the Mechanics Version can also be accessible for buy by house owners of the Streamliner Cylindrical Tourbillon Skeleton Alpine). Value: CHF 59,000 (for the set)