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This is a watch that needs to be seen in real life, so I took some decent pics today with my dSLR and macro lens. These were taken in direct sunlight.
The watch has a stunning aventurine dial AND a matching aventurine lunar disc. It also a highly lumed slightly 3D 4 colour ceramic moon. Lovely big dial and no logo. With GS style sharp steel black polished 3 hands. It’s exactly what I hoped for and I bought it instantly as soon as I handled it at the excellent launch event at the London Planetarium. It’s a better aventurine (deeper and more sparkly) than the Lange Saxonia Thin. And with the moon disc in aventurine, a better dial than the Moser moonphase. 🤯 Consort bracelet suits it perfectly, as does the Mastrotto leather blue deployant strap. CW knocked it out of the park with this watch 👏🏽 P.S. for anyone too young to have seen 2001 A Space Odyssey, that's where the headline quote comes from 🙂 https://youtube.com/shorts/kFw0LK5cQ...lGGfy9a-exbqDB ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Beautiful pics
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Will there be a McClaren orange version sometime in the future,Jas?
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Unfortunately not ![]() I considered whether this watch could be bespoked, and concluded that the only improvement I could make was to delete the "Swiss Made" text. And that's a very tiny thing. Otherwise it's already perfect ![]() |
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That's looks great. Seriously tempting and looks like a fun watch. Thanks for sharing
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Very sharp looking dial
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Thank you for the pictures and the video!
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Stunning.
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Really cool watch.
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Thanks guys
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I agree it should not be there, but it's not a deal-breaker IMO. You do forget it's there. It was a poor decision. Perhaps they thought it would sell more watches. |
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Oh my goodness, what a dial! That's truly incredible.
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CW up to their old tricks it seems. Using other brand designs to pawn off as their own (in this case, Le Rhone Hedonia moon). Not sure I could think any less of them at this point.
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2016: https://wornandwound.com/review/chri...nphase-review/ |
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They don’t look alike. No adventurine and CW added some tacky Roman numerals, which makes it unattractive. In any case, this isn’t a plug for Le Rhone as much as it’s a call out of CW. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Well the case and hands are different. It’s not a total replica… but the dial architecture and design is eerily similar, no? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Honestly, apart from something vaguely resembling stars and a moon I just don't see it. We can all have opinions though so if the CW reminds you of it I can't dispute that. Just doesn't for me ![]() Sent from my Pixel 7 using Tapatalk
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But to be honest, whatever you like or dislike the watches, it is not a question that this dial layout was stolen from CW and not in contrary. ![]() |
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Correction..The A&S Perpetual Moon debuted at BaselWorld 2013. The CW moonglow came out in 2019. Am I missing an earlier release by CW? - I see now that a 2016 reference was mentioned by CW. Still, it would be difficult to claim that Christopher Ward designed this Moonphase layout. ![]() |
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Strong words. Love the passion. I disagree with your point... but can't argue the passion.
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Do you think this dial would look better on leather strap |
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Love this. Just wish it had indices
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Wonderful, congratulations
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