WATCHES & TIMEPIECES
PAYING RESPECT TO OUR SUBLIME
LUNAR NEIGHBOUR IN UNIQUELY
EVOCATIVE FASHION
The Moon has fascinated humankind for millennia; in the C1 Another impressive technical flourish exists around the outside
Moonglow, that ancient allure has been captured in a truly modern of the Moonglow’s dial. Replacing a conventional date window, a
watch. Calibre JJ04, our in-house moonphase modification, may rotating ring has been coated with Grade X1 GL C1 Super-LumiNova,
have appeared in the CW Collection before, but never quite like this. aside from one individual non-lumed section in red; this aligns with
the current date on a lumed outer date ring, so that it can even be
50 years after Neil Armstrong first disembarked from Apollo 11’s
read on that late night stroll home.
Lunar Module (LM) “Eagle” to become the first person to set foot
on the Moon, the C1 Moonglow pays respect to our sublime lunar
neighbour in uniquely evocative fashion.
Although part of the C1 Grand Malvern premium dress watch family,
much like the minds at NASA who safely transported Armstrong
to that dusty lunar surface and back, the Moonglow is prepared to
innovate. Most eye-catching is the presence of the moon on the dial -
two, in fact. These 3D moons, positioned opposite from one another,
are coated with Grade X1 GL C1 Super-LumiNova that emits an
otherworldly ‘moonglow’. Perpetually rotating thanks to Calibre JJ04,
the phase of the moon is read through an aperture at 12 o’clock,
while the other moon remains clouded through smoked glass.
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The Art of Luxury
Issue 43 2020
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