Review: echo/neutra Averau 39 Moon Phase
What does a watch need" In its simplest form, perhaps just an hour hand from which you can determine the minutes to a relative accuracy, as one-handed watches have proven, but typically, a simple watch features three hands. Anything else is what we refer to as a complication. That word says a lot. There are many times in life when a ?complication? is a bad thing. Medical scenarios of course come to mind (if you were to search all of the scripts for ER or House, how many times would ?there?s been a complication? have been said"). It?s a word that implies difficulty, a problem, perhaps even distraction.
Of course, in watches, the implications aren?t negative, but they do mean, or at least indicate, that a watch is beyond its simplest form. There are times when complications are quite useful, like a day/date indicator on those hazy mornings when you forget if it?s Wednesday or Thursday, GMTs when traveling, and times when they are less so. I?m a huge chronograph fan but the amount of times I?ve truly needed a chronograph is quite few. Yet, they do come up (usually in the kitchen).
With that said, there is a complication that is fairly common, generally speaking, that really serves little purpose beyond adding complexity to a dial in our modern lives: the moon phase. I?ve literally never made a decision based on the phase of the moon, nor needed to know its phase. If I did, I?d look up at night. Perhaps that makes me the odd one, but I doubt it. Sure, the moon aff...
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