Ten new watches that shoot for the moon

Uppermost on the dial, the mother-of-pearl moon for the Southern hemisphere reveals a Pegasus winged horse, drawn by Dimitri Rybaltchenko Meticulously cut out of brittle rock taken from the jagged slopes of the Matterhorn, from a spot near the legendary Hörnli Hut, the serpentinite dial welcomes an "Astronomical" moon that will continue to track our silvery satellite's movements without adjustment for 122 years No need for a telescope to admire the Gassendi, Tycho and Cassini craters: their contours are reproduced with astounding precision on the brass dial of the Louis Moinet Moon watch.

Our nearest neighbour is, of course, at the heart of this new Speedmaster, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of Apollo 8, the first manned mission to orbit the moon - and see its dark side Inside the case, crowned by a bezel that fuses a composite material with actual parts from the module, the eye is irresistibly drawn to the sight of a three-dimensional moon as it rotates once around the dial in 29.5 days Orange or white? Speake-Marin explores the many shades of moon with this new One&Two; the first time a moon-phase module has been added to Calibre SMA03.

The originality of the display lies with the transition between a white moon and an orange moon, between 7 and 8 o'clock, across from the unusually positioned small seconds subdial between 1 and 2 o'clock. . Source