After a recent post from myself in respect of a jaeger lecoultre master ultra thin moon 39 it sparked a conversation with my son in respect of this style of watch and his desire to make a purchase.
So my question is what can you buy that is of a reasonable/good quality, on leather, SS with a moonphase (white or black face) for the maximum sum of £1000? Is it possible?
If so, would you lovely people let me have your thoughts and hopefully pictures.
Thanks
Fred
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Frederique Constant have moonphases in that price range I believe.
http://www.watchnation.com/product/f...BoCmjAQAvD_BwE
Slightly over the £1000 limit but they’re usually even less if you buy pre-owned!
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Christopher Ward do one I believe. Not sure on price, but probably comes in under budget when on sale??
I typed in Moonphase into Chrono 24 search engine and got 1900 of the beauties appear. Maurice Lacroix and Frederique Constant make up a fair proportion under a £1k.
However here are two images of ones that caught my eye. An 80’s Tissot Manual and a 90’s Eberhard Auto - two proper makes if you know what I mean.
Check out Louis Erard. OEMed by Zeno, I think, and good quality. Their triple date moon phase models in the 1931 collection use the Dubois Dépraz 9000 module (on top of ETA 2892-A2). Baume & Mercier use the same module in their triple date moon phases. Works well and good looking watches in my opinion. Their RRPs are over £1000 now but you should be able to obtain one for less than that.
I cannot recommend any particular place to buy. They have some actual bricks and mortar ADs in the UK (check the website, link below) but you might well get a better deal by buying online.
Louis Erard's site is here, http://montres-louiserard.ch, and here is one of their triple date moon phase models: http://montres-louiserard.ch/en/watches/31218aa15
I note that they also have watches with the Valjoux 7751 (triple date, moon phase and chrono) in the Excellence collection. Look nice in my opinion. For example: http://montres-louiserard.ch/en/watches/80231aa01
Keep them coming please
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My Ball moonphase was secondhand and under £1000, it's fabulous and has the most amazing line of any watch I've ever seen. To see the moon and stars illuminated is fantastic. Great watch too, will get some pics when I'm back home.
Look forward to them
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Glyince have an automatic moonphase that was on Massdrop for $400 recently, and is still frequently available for that much from two eBay sellers (same person IIRC) when you make an offer I believe. Pretty handsome watch.
Grey version is quite tasty.
Massdrop (not currently active) link:
https://www.massdrop.com/buy/glycine...utomatic-watch
eBay link:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Glycine-Me...-/332318851400
There are a few other colours available I believe. Make sure to make an offer rather than buy it now!
Well thank you very much, I've had a few drinks and ended up ordering one of these from ebay! They accepted an offer of $389.99, but with the annoying global shipping program the total ended up being $517.47 (or £393 thereabouts), but this includes prepaying the VAT etc, so no surprises upon delivery. Looking forward to it arriving though, my first moonphase :)
I wanted a moonphase, but knew I wouldn't wear it often enough to keep an automatic running and would probably find resetting a moonphase frustrating.
So, I bought a Certina DS-8 .
High accuracy quartz (similar to that used in some Breitling quartz watches) and about £500-600 depending on colour.
It's always right, which is perfect for a Moonphase.
M
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Breitling Cosmonaute 809 - What's not to like?
So you should! You now owe me 400 quid ;) I was already considering a moonphase anyway, albeit a cheaper one. I was quite tempted by this seagull powered moonphase chronograph (as I was also in the mood for a column wheel chronograph) from ebay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/182796334466 . But I prefer the styling of the Glycine, so no need to feel TOO bad.
erm.. so what exactly is a TRUE moonphase as opposed to a False (?) one then ?
That MontBlanc isn't dissimilar in looks to a JLC Master Moon. Now I don't want a MontBlanc watch at rrp but for 50% it's worth it since it would lose that the minute I buy it.
Bought about four years ago for £400, I think they're about £8-900 now.
I don't usually like coin edge or cathedral hands but this just took my fancy.
They are a pain to set up so I just wear it when the moon is right.
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A better pic.
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A full phase of the moon takes 29.5 days (specifically 29 days, 12 hours and 44 minutes, or 29.53 days) - thus a true moon phase watch will begin it's cycle again after 29.5 days - a 'false' moonphase will typically be linked to the 31 day calendar function and so will quickly become out of phase with the actual moon....
This is a bit different- my Eberhard Mareoscope, bought from SC a few weeks ago within budget, doesn't have a rotating moon disc but a hand that travels one revolution every 29.5 days, registering against fixed moon phase symbols.
The disc that could I suppose have been used as a moonphase symbol is configured to give a state-of-tide indication. See right hand subdial.
There is a quickset facility for the tide function, but unless anyone can tell me different to set the moonphase hand requires up to 29.5 days'worth of crown turning!
At the cheaper end of the scale, I have an Ingersoll IN8400SL Pawnee (though I believe they are discontinued so may be harder to find):
That is nice thought. What does it run like
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And upside down with hopefully the model number...
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I may have forgot one or two, apppologies.
I’ve recently found myself wanting a moon phase and almost bought a speedy but then I thought why what’s the point and, what is the point of one it’s just another “thing” to have I guess and I’d never wear it enough so would be always setting it yet, I still might end up with one I feel
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I may have forgot one or two, apppologies.
I'm just a very naughty boy.
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I may have forgot one or two, apppologies.
I had one of these Eberhard autos and the build quality was fantastic!! Even that crown is pretty nice in person!!
The only is with them is they have little screws that hold the caseback on and two of my had been snapped off which no one wanted to touch to repair?!?!?
Other than the fragile miniature screws the rest held up well and cost me a fair bit from memory so if they can be had for £1000 I’d be al over it !!!!
Also on the plus side I never ever saw anyone else with one??!!!
Chris
That oris is lovely. Really like the bezel design