The Ochs und Junior Luna Sole Blue Patina Ferragosto

Ludwig Oechslin has devoted a lifetime to discovering straightforward choices to superior points. His mannequin, Ochs und Junior, specialises in rising issues with as few elements as potential and is renowned for its minimalist, Bauhaus industrial design sort. Compressing astronomical choices proper right into a disarmingly straightforward present, the model new Luna Sole delivers the time, date, moon phases and the Moon’s place relative to the Earth and Photo voltaic. The model new Luna Sole is out there in a 40mm sterling silver case with a classy combination of blue patina and white gold leaf particulars on the dial.

The Luna Sole is being launched to coincide with the annual Mid-August (15 August) trip. This date has been feted since Emperor Augustus dominated Rome and superior to develop to be a Christian competitors in Roman Catholic nations celebrating the Assumption of Mary. Beforehand accessible in titanium cases, will most likely be fulfilling to see how the 40mm sterling silver case of the Luna Sole patinates over time. With its 9mm case thickness, the Luna Sole is the thinnest model in Ochs und Junior’s repertoire. Fitted with a screw-down crown, the case is waterproof to 100 meters and, like totally different fashions, reveals the marks of milling and machining.

To create this mini astronomical phenomenon, Ludwig Oechslin produced a module comprising merely six elements – along with the dial. A quick clarification is essential to know how this disarmingly straightforward dial relays rather a lot data. Two overlapping discs are positioned inside the centre of the blue patina dial; the lower disc portrays the Photo voltaic as a circle ( in white gold leaf) on one aspect and as a blue heart-shaped area on the alternative. The superior disc, which represents the Moon, has a white gold powder hoop matching the scale of the Photo voltaic. The fully totally different phases of the Moon may very well be ascertained by the usage of the ring’s place over the heart-shaped picture voltaic disc.

The picture voltaic disc rotates every 24 hours so that at midday, the Photo voltaic is featured on the prime of the dial and midnight on the bottom. When it rises inside the morning, it appears at 9; when it items, it sits on the three o’clock place on the dial. The Moon moreover completes a rotation nonetheless at a slower tempo of 29.5 days. When the Moon is reverse the Photo voltaic, it alerts a full moon; when it is immediately above the Photo voltaic, it signifies a model new moon. To deal with the Photo voltaic and the Moon in good synch, there is a direct drive from the Photo voltaic gear to the Moon fear by a reduction gear, and the deviation is just eventually in 122.3 years.

The additional straightforward hour and minute indications depend upon six elongated white gold leaf indices and matching hour and minute fingers, whereas the date makes use of Oeschlin’s Mese date present with 30 + 1 holes perforated on the perimeter of the dial indicated by white gold-leaf dots. The caseback is engraved with Mid-August 2024, and beneath it is the bottom ETA 2892-A2 automated movement working at 28,800vph with a 42-hour vitality reserve.

The Luna Sole comes on a grey Ecopell leather-based strap with a silver-plated buckle. The Luna Sole Ferragosto may very well be pre-ordered on the mannequin’s web page or by emailing [email protected]. It retails for CHF 8,500 (excl. VAT) or CHF 9,188.50 (incl. VAT).

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