Often featured in ladies’ watches, the moon-phase complication reproduces the lunar cycle in a miniature version. It generally appears as a disk or aperture. This function serves to keep track of full moons, new moons as well as when the moon is waxing or waning. A fascinating complication that gives a good reason for having your head in the stars !

Our selection of eight ladies’ moon phase watches :

A. Lange & Söhne – Little Lange 1 Moon Phase
The guilloché silvered gold dial of this model is swept over by hours and minutes hands and enlivened by a power-reserve indicator, a large date with jumping numerals and an astronomical complication composed of two golden moons. CHF 39’300.–

Breguet – Classique Phases de Lune Dame 9088
While the hours and minutes are indicated by open-tipped hands, the small seconds hand at 6 o’clock turns around the moon-phase aperture bearing a smiling moon. CHF 28’000.–

Girard-Perregaux  – Cat’s Eye Celestial
Directly connected to the barrel, this extremely precise moon-phase complication immediately draws the gaze to the appealing motherof- pearl and aventurine dial center that lends a supremely elegant touch to this watch displaying the hours and minutes. CHF 44’800.–

Zenith – Elite Lady Moonphase
This creation with its turquoise lacquered dial features leaf-type hour and minute hands, small seconds at 9 o’clock, along with a moon-phase complication at 6 o’clock composed of a star-studded midnight blue disk. CHF 7’400.–

Parmigiani Fleurier – Tonda Métropolitaine Sélène Galaxy
This entirely hand-decorated watch is equipped with Delta-shaped openworked hands revealing the midnight blue aventurine dial, small seconds at 6 o’clock, a date disk and a pink (April) moon featuring a surface dotted with craters (referred to as “lunar seas”). CHF 16’100.–

Bulgari – Lvcea Moonphase
Playing on the day/night contrast, this timepiece displays the moon phases through an aperture shaped like the arc of a circle and appearing in the upper part of the dial that is swept over by hours and minutes hands. CHF 15’000.–

Jaeger-Lecoultre – Rendez-Vous Moon Medium
So essentially, it’s, in my mind, anything that makes us feel, as opposed to telling us what to think. Lots of things fall into this category, even sport! Literature qualifies as the words, such as brush strokes, paint a picture in our heads that is different for everyone. A technical manual does nothing but instruct; art enables lateral thought, individual emotion, along with a unique takeaway. The watch a part of Bovet’s convertible selection, meaning the watch can easily be detached from the wrist strap (which is real blue alligator) and turned into a pocket watch, or table clock. A cool bit which adds a little bit of technical interest to something that’s otherwise little more than jewelry.So the principal thing you will notice when you look at the Bovet Amadeo Fleurier 43 is probably the rather striking picture of a horse-mounted, crown-wearing, bow-toting rider of the Apocalypse bedecked in a cloak, galloping more clouds. Right. Standard wrist candy? Not too much. This really is something for the connoisseur. I mean, it’s easy to criticism within this view’s lack of mainstream appeal (particularly at Bovet’s price bracket), but if you’re only earning one (and this bit is truly exceptional in that sense) you don’t need a great deal of people to enjoy it. You will find a startling number of people in the world who have enough money to get this sort of product, and the chances are in Bovet’s favour that one of them will think that it’s the bees knees. And anyway, artwork has a weird habit of appreciating in value for the oddest reasons.Watches are no different. Swatch once released a watch featuring the late Nicolas Hayek’s face on rotating disks, that aligned every so often to make a perfect picture of the man himself. It was widely derided for its look, but nevertheless sold like hot cakes. Nowadays, in lieu of his passing and his confident place in history, the Hayek Swatch is one of the most collectable and sought after. Now, I am not saying this Bovet has exactly the exact same kind of importance to the market, but it might have that kind of emotional appeal to someone who has a specific penchant for the dial subject.
This timepiece displaying hours, minutes and seconds has been meticulously crafted by the artisans of the Manufacture who have applied a sandblasted finish to the midnight blue moon disk and a guilloché motif to the dial center, in order to give a realistic touch to this complication. CHF 15’800.–

Bovet – Recital 11 Miss Alexandra
The artisans of the Manufacture have opted for an unconventional design with a fixed moon to indicate the lunar phases, while the hours and minutes hands form a heart every 60 minutes in the 6 o’clock subdial. CHF 43’000.–

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