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Moser gives its skeleton Streamliner a ceramic frame

The 100-piece Alpine edition combines anthracite ceramic, blue open-working and a double-hairspring flying tourbillon.

Hen & Mills Editorial · 4 min read · 3 September 2026

• A 40mm anthracite-grey ceramic case frames a fully skeletonised blue movement.
• The automatic HMC 814 carries a one-minute flying tourbillon and 72-hour reserve.
• Production is limited to 100 pieces at CHF79,000 excluding tax.

H. Moser & Cie. has made the Streamliner look unusually technical before, but the Streamliner Tourbillon Skeleton Ceramic Alpine pushes the idea further than a new dial colour. The 40mm case is made in anthracite-grey ceramic, the movement has been opened from both sides, and the remaining structure is picked out in electric blue. Production is limited to 100 pieces.

There is no conventional dial. The automatic HMC 814 calibre becomes the display, with its architecture reduced to the bridges, wheels and barrel needed to keep the watch running. Moser applies a blue atomic layer deposition treatment to the plate and bridges, giving the mechanism a crisp colour that is part finish and part visual map. Against the grey ceramic case, it makes the movement readable without pretending that a skeleton watch is a model of restraint.

Ceramic changes the Streamliner equation

The Streamliner case is usually defined by its flowing transition into a metal bracelet. Here, ceramic gives that shape a harder, more technical surface, while a blue Alcantara strap carries the line around the wrist. The case measures 40mm and is rated to 12 ATM, a useful level of water resistance for a complicated watch. Moser describes the ceramic as anthracite grey, which keeps the exterior quieter than the movement at its centre.

Ceramic brings familiar practical benefits. It is highly resistant to surface scratches and avoids the heft of steel, though it is not immune to hard impacts. On this reference it also allows the case and movement to occupy clearly separate visual layers: grey outside, blue within, with the metallic train and tourbillon providing the detail between them.

The Alpine name refers to the watch's motorsport context, but the execution does not lean on chequered flags or printed team graphics. Colour and materials carry the association. That makes the collaboration easier to read as a proper Streamliner rather than merchandise built around a logo.

The tourbillon is not hiding

At six o'clock sits a one-minute flying tourbillon fitted with Moser's double hairspring. The paired springs are designed to counter the positional errors produced as each one expands and contracts. It is an approach the manufacture has used as a technical signature, and it is especially easy to observe when the rest of the calibre has been skeletonised around it.

The HMC 814 is self-winding and provides 72 hours of power reserve. A skeletonised rotor keeps the automatic system from obscuring the view through the sapphire caseback. That matters on an open-worked calibre: a solid oscillating weight would turn one half of the watch into a periodic curtain.

Legibility is handled by metallic hour and minute hands fitted with Globolight inserts, accompanied by peripheral Globolight indices rather than a traditional dial. A skeleton watch always asks the eye to separate timekeeping information from the mechanics beneath it, but those luminous elements establish a workable hierarchy. The tourbillon remains the visual anchor, while the central hands retain a distinct reading layer above the wheel train.

Open-working also changes how the owner experiences the movement over three days of reserve. The barrel, train and winding system are no longer abstractions hidden under plates. Their changing state can be followed from either side, including the sweep of the open rotor as it restores energy. That visibility is not a new complication, but it makes the existing mechanism the subject of the watch.

Moser has kept the exterior controls conventional. There is a single crown and no extra pushers, because the tourbillon regulates the movement rather than adding an indication to operate. Against the visual density of the calibre, that simple interaction is useful. Wind or set the watch, then let the movement provide the theatre without another display competing for attention.

Price and availability

The Streamliner Tourbillon Skeleton Ceramic Alpine is limited to 100 pieces and priced by H. Moser & Cie. at CHF79,000 excluding tax. The brand did not provide a separate Australian price on the product page when checked. Its product page invites prospective buyers to reserve the watch or ask the manufacture for more information, subject to the limited allocation.

This is plainly not the democratic end of the Streamliner family. It combines a ceramic case, a fully open-worked manufacture calibre and a flying tourbillon, then limits the result to 100 examples. Yet it also avoids the easy route of adding a bright dial to an existing watch. The movement, case and strap have been treated as one composition.

That coherence is the point. The blue treatment is loud, but it has a job beyond decoration: it turns a dense mechanism into the face of the watch and separates it from the ceramic frame. For a skeleton tourbillon associated with a racing team, that feels more deliberate than simply making it fast-looking.