Laurent Ferrier has been burnishing its credentials as a luxury sports watch manufacturer in recent years but it returned to its more classical roots at Watches and Wonders with the unveiling of its first ever model with a moon phase complication.
The Classic Moon, offered with a choice of blue or silver dial, has a bold, hand-painted, moon phase indication inside a small seconds subdial at 6 o’clock.
This is balanced by an annual calendar presented with in-line day of the week and month at 12 o’clock.
Days of the month are pointed to by a central hand on a track that runs around the dial outside Roman numeral hour markers.
It comes in the same 40mm elegant, pebble-like, curved case that won Laurent Ferrier a best men’s watch award at the 2010 GPHG.
The blue dialed reference comes in steel and the silver-face is contrasted with a rose gold case.
Both become part of Laurent Ferrier’s core collection priced at CHF 70,000 for the steel piece or CHF 80,000 for the gold.
Both use a decorated hand-wound LF126.02 movement, which has 80 hour power reserve, and can be seen from an exhibition case back.
