TIL that lots of 'watch guys' can't tell the time without markers. Utterly bizarre.
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Arnold and son is going to be pissed.
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Not my style but I can see the appeal
Fantastic
Looks decent…Until you see closeup of the moonphase section. It’s massive. Has put me off.
Hopefully it isn’t 42 mm
That’s really great
Man, CW is really pushing hard on this sub huh?
Speaking personally, CW has nothing to do with my frequent posts about the brand. I like watches. I like what CW's doing. I post.
I would love some subtle markers on it. But that's something very pretty as it is.
Yeah with no markers this is jewlery and not really a watch.
Watches are jewelry
It’s got an hour hand, a minute hand, and even a seconds hand. It’s a watch. It just requires slightly more focus to tell the time if you’re not used to a dial without indices.
They still sell the C1 Moonglow. This is an additional watch the the line up. The C1 Moonphase.
Yeah, but said moonglow has nothing to do with this
Perhaps they meant the C1 Grand Malvern, which is more of a traditional moonphase?
It’s an addition to the c1 line. Not a replacement of the moonglow.
Its all nice and pretty but I cant tell anything in this type of watch.
meh. i hate watches without indices of some sort. I feel like they could've at least dont some brighter "stars" at 12 3 6 and 9
Wow this is a blatant ripoff of arnold & sons
They're both British, but made in Switzerland. That's a ridiculous coincidence (?)!
How the fuck am I supposed to read that?
Just a note. This isn’t replacing the old design. I messaged them to make sure the old design wasn’t a limited edition and I would need to buy one now and he told me it was a permanent addition to their lineup.
I wish it wasn't so thick (13.3mm) but the design is elegant and highlights the main attraction: THE MOOOOOOOON
I thought the moonphase was cool but hated how the front dial was transparent and kind of ruined the whole moonphase complication, especially when looking at it in the dark with the lumi glow on it. This has fixed that issue but I don't really like it not having any indices or date function, and the star pattern is meh imo
This is almost an insta-buy for me.
It's pretty but damn. Markers would have been nice.
Trying too much to be minimalist looks cheesy to me
“So how big do we want the moonphase?”
“YES”
…in all seriousness, I actually love this, lots of Moser/Arnold & Don vibes, and the white lume sounds awesome. This would be a fantastic formal/black tie watch, I might actually purchase one.
It’s quite nice. It’s a bit too big for my liking, but there we are.
To me this is one of those wear once in a while type of watches. I don’t mean as in a nice watch to wear for a nice occasion. It’s a bit too much for that, as in “I’m not a watch person but look at me with my sparkly watch”.
There’s nothing wrong with that of course, but personally I wouldn’t consider this subtle enough to wear to an event or occasion, although that’s obviously just my preference.
To me this is more of a ‘sitting outside with your buddies on the first nice evening of the year’ kind of watch. It’s warm, the light is lasting longer. One of your mates is talking some kind of shit, another is away with his thoughts. You’re enjoying a few beers or whiskeys. There’s a fire on.
You look at your wrist. The watch tells you vaguely it’s something past twelve, but not yet something past three. So you’ll feel like crap in the morning but still be able to semi-function.
However, looking at the dial reminds you of the grand vastness of the universe. Of everything that ever was, and everything that ever will be. Your life is inconsequential and ultimately meaningless.
So whatever worries you have don’t actually matter. There’s no real reason to be stressed, ever. This moment will never happen again. You’re the only person who’ll ever experience it. Enjoy it for what it is.
I mean to me, that’s better than the breathe app on an Apple Watch at least. And that’s probably what I’d get from this watch.
Sure, it’s a bit of a Moser rip off. And it’s slightly too big. I can forgive the depth because it adds to the ‘vastness of the night sky’ kind of vibe.
But it’s not like you’ll be wearing it out anywhere much anyway; this is a watch for those more introspective, meditative, marvel at the beauty of life, contemplative times.
It’s a watch to be enjoyed solely by the wearer. You’re probably wearing it with some bullshit outfit that sits somewhere between comfort and fun anyway, so who cares about your watch other than you, and how it makes you feel.
And obviously it’s quite hard to tell the actual time on it. But as long as you know if it’s something between 12 and 3, or 3 and 6, or so on, then you can kind of figure out if you’re on the right track. This is not a watch for when you need to be accurate with the time.
As it’s a mechanical watch, with its whatever in-house movement, you know that ultimately it’s flawed anyway. As are we all. There’s some comfort in that.
But as watches go, I’m happy this one exists and overall think it is a positive design. Maybe I’ll pick one up eventually. Something a bit different and interesting for the collection at least.
Although ultimately I’m not entirely sure it’s very good value. It’s more of a ‘on a whim, seemed like a good idea at the time, but I do enjoy it every now and then’ type of watch. Having said that, the interest of the dial and movement would probably let it run with higher tier brands fairly comfortably, for anyone who really cares at least. So who knows.
But it’s cool that you can look down and see what’s up. And I think that’s what this watch is really all about.
It's fine to not like this watch, but based on a lot of the replies here you'd think a good amount of people need a digital watch to be able to tell time at all. Like how much would you realistically be off by looking at this dial? Plus or minus one minute? I honestly cannot think of a single time in my life in which I'd have been wearing a dress watch, and simultaneously not be able to read the time on a dial like this and needed to know the EXACT time.
The far more egregious flaw here is going so far with the very pretty minimalist dial, but then spitting in the face of everything the design was about because you decided you could do without indices and numbers but just could not live without the fucking awful SWISS MADE text
And honestly, clocks and digital appliances telling you the time are everywhere anyway. The purpose of a watch hasn't been showing the time for a long while
Moonphase without a date? emm...
Stunning.
Thats pretty nice. Might be my favorite CW
The dial reminds me of the Felipe Pikullik Sternenhimmel. Absolutely stunning!
Geez what’s the diff between this and a Movado?
I love it! But will not replace my C1 Moonglow! I’m a big fan of aventurine!