Celestial Style: Arnold & Son Perpetual Moon Obsidian
There are watches with moon-phases and then there is the Arnold & Son Perpetual Moon, the only timepiece in which the lunar complication truly dominates the dial, relegating even the central hours and minutes to secondary status. The Swiss luxury watchmaker with British roots, named for 18th-Century English chronometer pioneer John Arnold, introduced the model in 2013 to instant acclaim, and the latest version, called the Perpetual Moon Obsidian, showcases an ancient material rarely found in watchmaking.
The Perpetual Moon Obsidian is limited to 28 pieces.
The watch’s 42-mm case, made of 5N 18k rose gold, frames a dial made of golden obsidian from Mexico, a semi-precious volcanic stone that has been mined throughout Central America since the dawn of history and was used in religious ceremonies by pre-Columbian civilizations. Its shimmering, bronze-like surface is derived from its chemical composition ? which includes a high level of silica content that renders it both hard and shiny ? and its specific crystallization. The sword-shaped hands are rhodium-plated and the wedge-shaped hour appliqués are in diamond-polished white gold.
A large, photo-realistic moon dominates the dial.
Also rhodium-plated is the timepiece’s signature attraction, the large, ultra-realistic hand-engraved moon disk, which waxes and wanes against the backdrop of a blue-lacquered silvered-star-dappled sky inside the vast, semicircular aperture in the upper half of the di...
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