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H. Moser & Cie. does it again with the Swiss Icons Watch

Post by Racer-X » January 10th 2018, 8:45pm

UPDATE: Retracted by H Moser - see post below:
http://www.watchlords.com/forum/viewtop ... 34#p416572
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Video is brilliant.


Article at Monochrome


"Introducing the H. Moser & Cie. Swiss Icons Watch. A tribute to the visionaries of watchmaking, before they were replaced by marketers."
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Post by MKTheVintageBloke » January 10th 2018, 10:33pm

Well, they meant it to look like a complete and utter crock of shit, and they certainly succeeded at that. Their interpretation of the marketing strategy of most Swiss manufacturers is one that I absolutely agree with.
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Re: H. Moser & Cie. does it again with the Swiss Icons Watch

Post by Pubbie » January 11th 2018, 3:25am

I think it's brilliant. I like the way it doesn't just rip the piss out of lazy designers and frankly, equally lazy buyers (is it iconic? Someone tell me it's an icon of Swiss watch design, I'll buy it and show people on the Internet), it takes a cabriole leg, and well, u kno the rest...
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Post by anonymous-10 » January 11th 2018, 7:09am

If Hans Wilsdorf screwed Nick Hayek while getting a reach around from Johann Rupert this is what would be left on the sheets.
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Post by Pubbie » January 11th 2018, 7:13am

bobbee wrote:I can't understand it.
Who wants to pay copious amounts of 💰 to wear a watch 'sarcastically'?
None but groovy hipsters with deep pockets and empty heads.

Er, it's not actually for sale!

The empty-headedness is what Moser is trying to illuminate - a lack of imagination and thought on the part of a bunch of usual-suspect premium brands, and by association, their buyers.
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Post by TemerityB » January 11th 2018, 8:37am

H. Moser has balls the size of garbage cans, and it only makes me admire them all the more. Sure, this watch is WTF (though I find it pretty funny) - but Moser is the bomb. Hand me a Venturer small seconds and I'll call it a hobby right then and there.
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Post by Pubbie » January 11th 2018, 12:24pm

TemerityB wrote:H. Moser has balls the size of garbage cans, and it only makes me admire them all the more. Sure, this watch is WTF (though I find it pretty funny) - but Moser is the bomb. Hand me a Venturer small seconds and I'll call it a hobby right then and there.

I see it's already fucked up a lot of humourless but patently idle rich men on the internet
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Post by Racer-X » January 11th 2018, 12:43pm

Pubbie wrote:
TemerityB wrote:H. Moser has balls the size of garbage cans, and it only makes me admire them all the more. Sure, this watch is WTF (though I find it pretty funny) - but Moser is the bomb. Hand me a Venturer small seconds and I'll call it a hobby right then and there.

I see it's already fucked up a lot of humourless but patently idle rich men on the internet


Not sure the implication, but today, H Moser removed the video from YouTube. The video in the OP is from ABTW.
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Post by Racer-X » January 11th 2018, 4:32pm

Pubbie wrote:
Racer-X wrote:Not sure the implication, but today, H Moser removed the video from YouTube. The video in the OP is from ABTW.

Glad I watched it a couple of times and had a chuckle!


The video is still in the OP, I just had replace it with the same video from elsewhere.
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Post by AlbertaTime » January 11th 2018, 9:03pm

I just noted that the Swissish Salad Watch (yet somehow: Schaffhausen) has lumed numerals--but unlumed hands.

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Post by Pubbie » January 12th 2018, 1:53am

Racer-X wrote:
Pubbie wrote:
Racer-X wrote:Not sure the implication, but today, H Moser removed the video from YouTube. The video in the OP is from ABTW.

Glad I watched it a couple of times and had a chuckle!


The video is still in the OP, I just had replace it with the same video from elsewhere.

Got you now.

And I saved it, in case LVMH and Richemont lawyer up and erase Moser from the internet for taking the piss ...
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Re: H. Moser & Cie. does it again with the Swiss Icons Watch

Post by Racer-X » January 13th 2018, 12:31am

Aaaand it's gone, and turns out it was a one-off to be auctioned.

"H. Moser Retracts The Swiss Icons Watch"

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/h-mos ... cons-watch


That official statement arrived this morning and reads as follows:

Dear H. Moser friends and others,

No one said #MakeSwissMadeGreatAgain would be easy...

You might have noticed that we have stopped our campaign promoting our Swiss Icons Watch.

While our objective was to pay tribute to the great founders of our beautiful industry and warn against certain practices of others, the message was unfortunately sometimes misunderstood.

As such, the Swiss Icons Watch will therefore no longer be presented and won’t be sold to raise funds to support education and training of young Swiss Watchmakers.

But fear not, we still have a number of surprises to share with you next week at SIHH.

Yours sincerely,
Edouard Meylan
CEO H. Moser & Cie."
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Re: UPDATE: H. Moser Retracts Swiss Icons Watch

Post by MKTheVintageBloke » January 13th 2018, 2:06pm

Edouard Meylan is exactly the sort of watch company owner who seems to actually care about honesty, tries to push the industry to improve, and does that with style. No wonder why his mocking of the industry's behemoths, who offer and do the same shit over and over again without the slightest chance for a change, pissed them off. Truth usually hurts, and it looks like they bloody felt it, as they should have.
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Re: UPDATE: H. Moser Retracts Swiss Icons Watch

Post by Pubbie » January 15th 2018, 3:25am

MKTheVintageBloke wrote:Edouard Meylan is exactly the sort of watch company owner who seems to actually care about honesty, tries to push the industry to improve, and does that with style. No wonder why his mocking of the industry's behemoths, who offer and do the same shit over and over again without the slightest chance for a change, pissed them off. Truth usually hurts, and it looks like they bloody felt it, as they should have.

Agreed. And it makes people who took personal offence at what Moser look like dicks. What, their mothers all work in the Swiss luxury watch industry?
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