H. Moser & Cie makes about 4,000 watches a year, and it has just made two of them scarcer. Announced on November 2, the Heritage Chronograph White Fumé, reference 8220-1200, is limited to 100 pieces, and the Heritage Centre Seconds Espresso Fumé, reference 8200-1207, to 200 pieces, according to Watchespedia. Both are steel, both are 42 mm, and both draw their shapes from Moser’s own archive rather than from a mood board.
Two dials, opposite temperatures
The Chronograph’s white fumé sunburst dial carries the 1947 version of the Moser logo, with the chronograph markings, subdial graduations, and tachymeter scale all rendered in blue. The strap is grey kudu leather, hand-stitched in grey thread. Inside is the HMC 220 automatic calibre with a Dubois Dépraz chronograph module: 51 jewels, a frequency of 21,600 vibrations per hour, and a minimum power reserve of three days. The module pushes the case height to 13.8 mm.
The Centre Seconds runs warmer. Its espresso fumé dial carries numerals in Globolight, a ceramic material loaded with Super-LumiNova that stands proud of the dial surface, with sword-shaped hands and a white railway minute track. The strap is raw brown kudu stitched in white. The HMC 200 calibre inside is 5.5 mm thick, so the case sits at 11.1 mm, noticeably flatter on the wrist. Both movements use Moser’s Original Straumann hairspring, made by sister company Precision Engineering AG in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, and both are finished with the house’s double stripes under a sapphire caseback.
Pulled from the archive, not the trend report
The Heritage line works from specific periods in the company’s past. The Chronograph refers to the instruments Moser built in the mid-20th century for explorers and pioneers, which is why the tachymeter scale earns its place on the dial. The Centre Seconds looks further back, to pocket watches with slim lugs from the turn of the century. The rounded case, tapered lugs, and notched crown are the family’s shared grammar.
Neither piece is offered in precious metal, and Moser has not published prices. Both are available on request from the maison or an authorised retailer in the Middle East. In a season of loud releases, a 100-piece steel chronograph with a 1947 logo and a three-day reserve is making its argument quietly, and on the archive’s evidence.
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