H. Moser & Cie Pioneer Retrograde Seconds

H.Moser & Cie. just revealed the Pioneer Retrograde Seconds – a new complication in the popular Pioneer collection of the brand.

Today the manufacture presents a highly visual, playful complication in the bold and modern Pioneer collection. The Pioneer Retrograde Seconds is designed for everyday wear with a 42.8 mm solid steel case and different bracelet options: stitched alligator leather, rubber, or textile strap.

The Pioneer Retrograde Seconds features the brand’s signature midnight-blue fumé dial, combined with leaf-shaped hour and minute hands filled with Super-LumiNova^® and a transparent logo right under 12 o’clock.

The star of the novelty is the HMC 250 automatic winding movement. Based on the HMC 201 basic calibre developed by H. Moser & Cie, it is coupled to a module designed by its partner Agenhor SA, which has made retrograde mechanisms one of its specialities.

The retrograde mechanism is displayed on the dial, occupying a big space from 5 to 7 o’clock. A traditional seconds hand rotates once every 60 seconds, while the retrograde seconds mechanism follows an arc and resets every 30 seconds, with the seconds hand swiftly returning to its starting position.

It has a double snail cam that enables the seconds hand to complete its journey in 30 seconds. At the end of each cycle, the snail, which is in permanent contact with the sector or finger, releases the energy accumulated and stored by a hairspring located under the seconds hand axis, with a stud holder mounted on the mainplate.

The rack, which is also visible under the retrograde seconds bridge, positions the hand precisely on its path and releases the accumulated energy all at once, while keeping the mechanism under control. A small two-tone (grey and blue) disc indicates whether the watch is in the first or second 30-second period of the cycle.

H. Moser & Cie Pioneer Retrograde Seconds