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Whimsical Moonphase
While the complication is certainly unnecessary in today’s time, I find moonphase watches stir up a different feeling than the rest of my collection. I was explaining it to some friends at dinner recently and they thought I was nuts and told me to “just look up” lol. In this regard, I find the Germans (ALS and Gashutte Original) do them best.
This design is so charming. For most people, why even have a watch?
They rather glance at their phone than their wrist.
But not us 
I agree that moonphases are mostly pointless for most of us, but they are beautiful…
…this one in particular!
All the best,
Jon
Stunning Lange!
I would say to them that it is a romantic and nostalgic complication that echoes the beauty of the past, the magic of the preset, and the hope and mystery of the future. To see a finely crafted complication as a moonphase on a timepiece is beauty come alive.
Thank you!
I always find it sometimes frustrating to articulate why a watch is so special when asked by a horology layman.
Ridiculous friends!
If you wanted to look up you wouldn't have put something so entrancingly beautiful down on your wrist!
Whenever someone says that mechanical watches and complications are: obsolete/redundant/useless etc., they either haven't thought about why they endure, or are unable to. To whit...
1. Analog technologies continue to be popular the deeper we travel into digital integration. It explains the continued fascination for - and emotional attachment to - physical objects. They deliver beauty, intrigue and old-school ingenuity. They carry in them long tradition, which engenders both curiosity in and respect for the past. People *need* such feelings of attachment, few if any of which can be obtained by current retail technologies and interactions. Quite apart from being obsolete/redundant/useless, mechanical watches are absolutely essential because we can hold and admire them, and grow memories with them.
2. The moon phase complication is one of the most powerful embodiments of how human beings have learnt to experience and understand the passage for time. Its movement and phases have literally shaped humanity and our own rhythms. It's one half of the sun-moon duopoly that allowed us to organise ourselves and our communities. It allowed us to observe and understand the passage of months, and to segment the passage of seasons. Many people living in urban environments (i.e. most of humanity now) can't "just look up" and see the moon unimpeded. They're disconnected and have no grasp of how utterly mesmerising it and moonlight can be. Even if only symbolically, moon phase watches connect us to an intimate relationship between the sky above and the earth below that has shaped us for tens of millennia. If that's not useful, what is?