I saw a version of this watch (the Moonphase) advertised in the New Scientist magazine. Christopher Ward watches aren’t as expensive as Rolex etc., but they’re still quite special. I wear this every day and enjoy it. Like the Warmink clock, it has a moon phase complication; it’s also automatic and it has a date display. Interestingly (to me), the two moons are always visible – the ‘hidden’ one is behind what seems to be smoked glass. I suspect the reason for this is because the moons are luminous; as one of them was revealed it wouldn’t all be luminous if there weren’t some way to ‘charge’ it – i.e. for light to get to it. It also made me think; there’s a mnemonic to know the chape of the crescent moon – “DOC” – the shape of the moon is like the curved parts of these letters. The moon disc on this watch rotates clockwise, obviously. Well, this works in the Northern hemisphere, but in the Southern half of the world, the moon phases are the other way round (luckily, they can just use the mnemonic “COD), so how do watches intended for the other hemisphere work? Is the movement different, or is the ‘mask’ simply inverted?
I figure that because I bought this watch new it should outlast me.
