---
title: "This Vantablack Watch Costs $75,000"
description: "Swiss watchmaker H. Moser & Cie. has partnered with Surrey NanoSystems — the company behind Vantablack — to create a watch that looks like a black hole."
date: "2020-01-15"
modified: "2020-01-15"
authors:
  - name: "Victor Tangermann"
    job_title: "Senior Editor"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/watch-coated-vantablack-darkest-material"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
tags:
  - "the digest"
  - "vantablack"
  - "watch"
  - "world's darkest material"
---

# This Vantablack Watch Costs $75,000

![Swiss watchmaker H. Moser & Cie. has partnered with Surrey NanoSystems — the company behind Vantablack — to create a watch that looks like a black hole.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/watch-coated-ventablack-darkest-material.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: H. Moser\</em\>*

## Watch List

Swiss luxury watchmaker H. Moser & Cie. has partnered with Surrey NanoSystems — the company behind ultra-dark material [Vantablack](<https://futurism.com/tags/vantablack>) — to create a wristwatch that looks like you're staring into a black hole, [*The New York Times* reports](<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/12/fashion/watches-h-moser-and-cie-switzerland.html>).

"I knew if we wanted to make black watches we would have to do something unique," H. Moser & Cie. CEO Edouard Meylan told the *Times*.

## Limited Edition

The Endeavour Tourbillon Concept Vantablack, a limited edition of just 50, will cost $75,000.

The Vantablack S-VIS coating works by trapping light between tiny nanotubes. One billion nanotubes [can fit](<https://www.wired.com/story/vantablack-anish-kapoor-stuart-semple/>) in just one square centimeter. It's so dark that it can make 3D objects appear two dimensional as any shape ends up reflecting almost no light.

## Time Piece

Even German carmaker BMW jumped on the trend and [coated](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/vantablack-bmw>) an entire X6 luxury cross-over in the spray in August — but in a spray that only absorbs 99 percent of light, compared to the original Vantablack spray, which absorbs 99.965 percent.

"It wouldn’t have worked if we’d put on the original material," Surrey CTO Ben Jensen [told *New Atlas*](<https://newatlas.com/automotive/bmw-vantablack-x6/>) at the time. "The viewer would have lost all sense of three-dimensionality."

**READ MORE:** [A Watch That Is Blacker Than Black](<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/12/fashion/watches-h-moser-and-cie-switzerland.html>) \[*The New York Times*\]

**More on Vantablack:** *[MIT Team “Accidentally” Invents Blackest Material in Existence](<https://futurism.com/mit-accidentally-invents-blackest-material>)*

## Author
I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida.

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