Double Vision: H. Moser & Cie. Pioneer Perpetual Calendar MD Features New Dual-Window Display

Gave the watchmaking world its most elegantly minimalist perpetual calendar in 2005 That timepiece - which won the 2006 GPHG Complicated Watch Award - has been reimagined in several iterations in the years since, most recently in 2016's Endeavour Perpetual Calendar Concept, a 10-piece limited edition with an even starker, more streamlined design For the watch's most recent evolution, as part of Moser's sport-luxury Pioneer collection, the dial gets slightly more complex in the service of being eminently more legible.

The Moser Pioneer Perpetual Calendar MD, available with either the brand's hallmark Funky Blue dial, or an all-new Burgundy-colored face debuting on this model, is notable for its two windows at the 3 o'clock position, one for the date, one for the month While the Funky Blue model features traditional applied indices at the hour markers, along with small dots on the flange, the Burgundy watch uses only the small dots for an even cleaner look The date can be set at any time of day, backwards and forwards, with no risk of damaging the movement, a rarity in a perpetual calendar timepiece, and the leap-year indication is tucked away in the back, on the movement side, and visible through an exhibition sapphire caseback.

Limited to 50 pieces in each of its colorful iterations, the Pioneer Perpetual Calendar will retail for $39,900. . Source