LINDE WERDELIN Oktopus [harvest] MOON

** WARNING ** some rambling on the science of the Moon 

Gaze upon the harvest Moon with LW’s latest, eight armed lunar creation the, Oktopus Moon. 

You know how you should never stare directly at the Sun or else you’ll be blinded; well that is not true of the Moon.

You can stare it all you want; sure some might go a bit looney when it’s in its waxing gibbous phase AKA full Moon; perhaps even transform themselves into some sort of drooling supernatural lupine entity.

But man, he has been gazing at the Moon ever since – well, ever since he evolved from a monkey, stood up on two legs and dared to dream of things greater than himself while in the company of a nice glass of something wet. 

My apologies if that just triggered any creationists reading this, feel free to vent in the comments, below.

The Moon transitions through eight phases: New Moon, Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Last Quarter and Waning Crescent – 

all of which have been painstakingly reproduced with a breath-taking level of photorealism that would do justice to any scientific journal right on the watch’s dial.

If I may, the Moon’s cycle reoccurs once a month – or approx. every 29.5 days which is why it was always used to measure months. 

In addition the Moon's gravity generates what is known as a tidal force, causing the Earth and its bodies of water to bulge at the side nearest to the moon, as well as the side furthest from the moon. 

These watery bulges are known as the high tides.

Almost there – having knowledge of the tides is important to anyone living working or playing in and around the seas – 

fishermen, surfers, sailors and yes, divers, too - particularly night divers wishing to experience the underwater world teaming with life, illuminated by the light of a full moon.

Thanks for the science lesson I hear you say, but how about this awesome new watch from LW – you’re welcome, it’s why I’m here, and not only for the science of it all, the watches too. 

But hopefully you can see why a moon phase as rare as it is, is a pretty great feature to have on a diver’s watch. 

Btw, I only know of Blancpain, Oris and LW who have ever offered any kind of MOON feature on a diver, but for over a decade now this has really been LW’s thing and they do it so well.

So what is different about this latest member of the Oktopus family of wristwatches, those btw made for divers and created for the Danish Navy’s Special Forces? 

Well, it features a five-layer skeletonised dial in bronze and gold satin finish hands. This gorgeous bronze and golden toned dial is supposed to evoke the autumnal harvest moon.

When dark, the photorealistic moons come into play and are visible through aperture between 4 and 8 o'clock, and aperture at 1 to 2 o'clock, circular perlage surface on metallic rose gold (5N) moon disc. 

Red “0” indicates current moon phase; gold numbers indicate past and future moon phases.

Its case has five part construction in Titanium grade 2 and is fitted with a 2.5mm anti-reflective Sapphire crystal, a Titanium grade 2 screw in back case with engraved octopus drawing, 18 karat rose gold (5N) screw-down crown, engraved with an octopus icon. 

It has a microbillé (fine sand blasted) finish.

Its 23 jewels movement is bespoke with an in house photo-realistic moon phase complication with a power-reserve of 44 hours and a balance frequency 28,800vph (4Hz). 

The watch comes with an interchangeable rubber strap in Earth brown with Titanium Ardillion buckle.

The watch is limited to 59 individually numbered pieces worldwide – 59 signifying 2x moon phases. MSRP is 15,659USD. 

Thoughts? I’ve already said more than enough especially on the topic of the moon but damn this is so nice; I'm kinda' humbled by its beauty – the bronze dial is a true masterpiece. But what do you think, though?