Horological Meandering - Dr. Marcus Hanke takes a look at the Ulysse Nardin Moonstruck

Dr. Marcus Hanke takes a look at the Ulysse Nardin Moonstruck

A Ticket to the Moon

Ulysse Nardin's "Moonstruck"

Part I:
The quest for astronomical accuracy

by Marcus Hanke

(c) text and pictures, if not noted otherwise, Marcus Hanke and PuristSPro, October 2009

Many years ago, Ludwig Oechslin explained to me his concept behind the magnificent astronomical "Trilogy in Time": "It is like a journey through space: You start approaching the solar system and see the planets circling around the Sun. This is what I have shown on the "Planetarium". Then you close in on Earth, you notice it partially illuminated by the Sun, like I did on the "Tellurium". Finally, after landing on Earth's surface, you turn around and look back into the sky, where you have come from. You see the stars moving over the endless dome stretching above you. This view I have reproduced on the "Astrolabium"."

Trilogy set, (c) Ulysse Nardin

Released between 1985 and 1992, the "Trilogy" guaranteed Ulysse Nardin immediate fame and acknowledgement as innovative brand able to produce unique and highly complicated watches. For Ludwig Oechslin, as it seemed, the time of astronomical timepieces and their philosophical implications was over, and an era of practical complications, like that of a perpetual calendar adjustable forward and backward, a most easy to use GMT mechanism, a 24 hours alarm function with countdown, or of new escapements began.

Astrolabium, Planetarium and Tellurium, (c) Ulysse Nardin

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