Ulysse Nardin is launching a radically modernized version of one of its historical astronomical complications: the Moonstruck (Ref. 1063-400-2A/3A) in black ceramic.

With this Worldtimer, housed in the geometrical ceramic case of a Blast, Ulysse Nardin reproduced as faithfully as possible the sun?s visible trajectory and the lunar cycles. The watch can best be described as a descendant from the trilogy of astronomical watches created nearly forty years ago by the master watchmaker Ludwig Oechslin:

?I am delighted that my watches and astronomical clocks enable people to think about their position in the universe and perhaps realize that we are not the center of the world.?

The 45-mm Blast Moonstruck reproduces the moon?s rotation, the apparent movement of the sun around the globe as we observe it from Earth and a tidal chart. Designed to make this “dance between the sun and the moon intelligible and intensely poetic,” the geocentric display of the Blast Moonstruck aims to be easy to understand, even for a beginner with no prior knowledge of astronomy.
Underneath the three-dimensional dial structure is the UN-106 caliber with 50-hour power reserve. The hands indicate the local time, as well as the time in the time zone where the watch?s owner resides. But they can also be set at will to any one of 24 time zones for which the names of corresponding cities are reproduced on the fixed flange of the dial. This can be done, forwards or backwards,...