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This article nails it. Great piece/s (the article and the watch(es).
Thanks mate, should be back to posting more regularly again too
"If you wear a Speedmaster every day and see someone with a MoonSwatch on their wrist, I really think you should compliment them on it, and show them how it compares to your version. Encourage that passion and see them as you once were before you had one of your own."
Funny I only commented on a yellow MoonSwatch on a ladies wrist at work the other day, and on seeing my Omega Speedmaster, she mentioned that it was her dream watch.
To see a 30 year old professional woman having an Omega moonwatch as a dream watch. Priceless for Omega.
Agreed!
The white dials in general have really sparked interest. I had a late 20s early 30s guy notice my Speedy in an elevator this weekend and he talked about the new white dial pro. Said he had just leaned about the Mitsukoshi and Albino through that release and had "new goals" now, wanted one in white, and the classic black. (he was wearing an apple watch)
Just curious, has anyone seen a picture of the full moon on the moonphase? Hoping for a smiley face or something fun.
Great article, but to me there is one huge glaring problem with the watch. They somehow added a moonphase complication and made it totally unuseable. Why didn't they put Snoopy on one side and a Moon on the other side of the wheel so it would have been useable?
Great article, but to me there is one huge glaring problem with the watch. They somehow added a moonphase complication and made it totally unuseable. Why didn't they put Snoopy on one side and a Moon on the other side of the wheel so it would have been useable?
The purpose of the moonphase dial isn't meant to be useable, it's just a cute feature of the watch. No one needs to know the phase of the moon, and most users won't even adjust it to the correct phase when they get the watch. Heck, they won't even know what the numbers mean around the moon dial...."29 1/2, what's that?"
Snoopy sitting on the moon is the full moon, it’s just mirrored above and below but is effectively the same as other moon phase discs. The discs are repeated twice because the moon has a 29.5 day cycle, and since you can’t have a half tooth on a wheel, moonphase discs have 59 teeth with a mirror image on them so each full rotation represents two cycles. Exposing both above and below just makes it more visually interesting but it’s the same in terms of accuracy
I understand this, I just think it doesn't accurately show the waning very well.
