Early January, we covered the Speedmaster Blue Side of the Moon here on Fratello. Today, I will show you the new 2018 version of that watch, with aventurine glass dial and Sedna gold hands and hour markers. I have to admit that I wasn’t über-enthusiastic about the blue ceramic Speedmaster Moonphase we showed you last […]

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Thanks for the post. Not my favorite, but interesting. I'd have preferred to see a black version with silver hands, but that's me. I love the original DSOTM and it's glossy black dial - add little silver stars and wowza, and a moon phase is just icing on the cake.

 

Thanks a lot for another great hands-on.
One thing I keep wondering is if the colour of the blue ceramic is really different (darker) than the one on the original Blue Side of the moon?

The guy from Omega mentioned here (

) that this is the case. Did you observe it Robert-Jan?

Best,
Fabian

 

Great photos, thanks for the write up!

 

It looks like it was modeled out of a navy blue crayon in the video above.

 

Difficult to say as they weren’t in the same room. I can ask this though, will do and update the article accordingly.

 

So, I asked the person at Omega who is responsible for its development. He let me know that the blue ceramic is exactly the same. However, due to the reheating process, you will/may get a different color in the end. So I believe this means that they can be different some times, but also among the same model you can have some slight differences in color.

 

Thanks a lot Robert-Jan for the clarification. Sad to hear, on the photos it looked far better than the old Blue Side of the Moon in my opinion (due to the darker shade, which appears to be almost grey/black).

 

Having never seen blue ceramic, I tried on a BSOTM at an AD last week and I have to say, I completely agree with you - the combination of the blue ceramic case with the blue ceramic dial seemed dull and uninteresting. I'm looking forward to seeing the aventurine dial version and hope I like that better.

In view of the information about varying color in the ceramic cases, it sounds like this would not be a watch to go for, without seeing it in the flesh.

 

Hi all,

Just wanted to let you know that the first Aventurine Blue Side of the Moon Moonphase Aventurine Dial (phew) arrived at the OB in Zurich last week. Went to see it and I like it, but still have doubts regarding the blue ceramic case (which is indeed the same color as the standard Blue Side, compared side-by-side).

The watch is rather flashy given the gold accents, the prominent golden moon and the sparkle of the dial. Much better in my opinion than the standard Blue Side.

Would love to see an Aventurine dial version in a GSOTM-Case with white gold accents - I would buy that one ASAP.

Best,
Fabian

 

There is one in Regent Street in London as well apparently. Not entirely sure if I need that one in my life...