Astronomy Perpetual Moon 38 Red Gold

A dazzling radiant celestial timepiece

A sumptuous diamond setting illuminates the hour-markers, crown, lugs and bezel. Glittering by day, scintillating by night, Perpetual Moon 38 Gold makes radiance its hallmark.

The moon-phase complication is the most poetically and charmingly showcased watch function, but that is not all. The moon is large, influential and powerful, both in the sky and at Arnold & Son. It shapes our lives, our oceans, gravity and the appearance of our nights. It is this celestial body that reigns supreme on Perpetual Moon 38 Gold.

Arnold & Son is expanding its moon-phase collection with this creation in red gold (5N). The harmonious blend of complication, design, proportions and gem-setting firmly establish the Perpetual Moon 38 collection as part of a subtle and distinguished world.

Perpetual Moon 38 Gold is adorned with 138 diamonds for a total of ~2.61 carats, but nonetheless remains firmly rooted in the watchmaking codes of the La Chaux-de-Fonds Manufacture, which is steeped in John Arnold’s marine chronometer heritage. This jewel is therefore also a timepiece powered by a finely crafted manual-winding calibre.

Everything follows on from the spirit of this complication. Beneath the delicately bluetinged mother-of-pearl dial with an openworked upper section, a large sky disc, also in mother-of-pearl, bears a white moon adorned with Super-LumiNova and hand-painted shadows. Nearby, the Ursa Major and Cassiopeia constellations complete the scene.

Perpetual Moon 38 Gold thus presents two faces. The first is the gem-set gold case and its mother-of-pearl dial evoking daytime. The other glows with a cold blue light to represent the night, when the stars painted with luminescent material shine and when the moonlight truly comes into its own.