How one of the blackest substances on earth ended up in a luxury watch
HMoser & Cie may well be the only WATCHMAKER with a sense of humour. When it’s not busy producing elegant DRESS WATCHES with beautiful fume dials and COMPLICATIONS, it’s making a statement with bizarre one-offs made of Swiss cheese, plants or the hallmark features of other brands’ iconic models. For last year’s April Fool’s joke, the brand revealed a concept watch you couldn’t even read the time off because everything was supposedly coated in VANTABLACK, one of the world’s darkest materials.As it turns out, interest and demand for such a ridiculous concept was so overwhelming that H MOSER & CIE decided to follow through on the idea – with practical revisions, of course – and it resulted in the Venturer Concept Vantablack series last year. For 2020, the collection welcomes new Venturer Vantablack Black Hands models with an even stealthier look with barely-there hands. Read full article