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Jul 25, 2021,23:32 PM
Kudoke introduced this variation of its Kudoke 2 this week. After following its work for more than a year, and reflecting on the posts and testimonies of current owners, I felt that this is the one for me: black dial, rose gold.
I've read reviews the describe its sun/moon complication as whimsical or expressive. At a certain level it is. To me it represents something rather more profound and ancient. The way it is presented here harks back to the foundation of time-telling itself, when the sun and the moon not only dominated the heavens, but the lives of everyone below. Together they formed the basis of world views and belief systems that can be traced back tens of thousands of years. The sun and moon (and night sky) have shaped spiritual awareness and ritual, inspired monumental architecture, seeded symbolic and representational art, and nourished religious tropes and idiomatic speech for at least 10,000 years and perhaps much longer than that. Their imprint can be felt in faith traditions and iconographies around the world to this day, sometimes hiding in broad daylight but always there.
There are of course plenty of watches that we can say ap into the same universal current. I'm not sure there are many that do it with such singularity as this one.