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All about the Swiss Alp Final Upgrade

This is the tale of the last of the Swiss Alp Watches… a watch that encourages you to count the hours spent with family, spent dreaming, spent pursuing your passions or absorbing a symphony. Load life, not updates.

24 May 2023

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The Swiss Alp Watch Final Upgrade marked the last installment in our celebrated concept series, which began all the way back in 2016.

H. Moser & Cie. created this remarkable series with a signature touch of irony and a large helping of exquisite craftsmanship: an exploration of modern movements and style, the Swiss Alp Concept series has the appearance of a digital watch while concealing a 100% mechanical Haute Horlogerie heart. The Final Upgrade is a unique piece – released in a limited edition series incorporating the fascinating depths of Vantablack® to a touch of high-tech mystery. While this exclusive timepiece has now sold out, its legend lives on…

Loading Life

If life has taught us anything, it’s that connection is essential – but what are we connecting to? Hopefully, to those we love, to ourselves, to the passions and projects we care about most. To express this concept in an elegant timepiece, H. Moser & Cie. created a final edition in the Swiss Alp Watch collection: a very special model inspired by the smartwatch design, but without batteries, data, tracking, updates, tweets, monitors, alerts, distractions, or demands. For the self-starters, and the self-chargers. For those who want to measure time, not consume it. The only thing this watch uploads? Life.

Check out the (entertaining, we promise) Swiss Alp Final Upgrade video here!

Recharge your Batteries

With its 100% Swiss Manufacture movement and a minimum power reserve of 96 hours, The Swiss Alp Watch Final Upgrade is made to last. No charging required – so you can recharge yourself instead.

A rectangular case with soft, rounded corners is topped by a crystal with curved edges that nod to smartwatch design, in a postmodern blending of genres that’s perfectly on-trend. This exceptional model combines a stunning Vantablack® dial without logo or indices; the blackest material on earth, Vantablack® is simultaneously mysteriously elegant and fiercely contemporary.

An ode to understatement, this ultra-contemporary yet timeless watch creates a striking contrast between aesthetic simplicity and complex materials; a steel case with black DLC coating completes the power of the Vantablack® dial.

The Limited Edition Swiss Alp Watch Final Upgrade is now sold out, but you can explore the specs here.

SWISS ALP WATCH

Taking design cues from the modern era, the Swiss Alp Watch represents the traditional, mechanical interpretation of the smart watch. Limited to just 50 pieces, the 5324-0200 boasts an entirely in-house developed and produced HMC 324 hand-wound movement which unlike other “smart watches”, does not need to be plugged in to recharge. Winding the crown on the side of the white gold rectangular case will keep the time going for more than four days.

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