LA CHAUX-DE-FONDS, SWITZERLAND (June 13, 2024) – Today, Arnold & Son reveals the Perpetual Moon 38 Night Tide, the latest addition to the Swiss watchmaker’s exceptional collection of moon phase timepieces. Perpetual Moon 38 Night Tide celebrates the fluctuating pull of this celestial body on the seas. The lunar-inspired timepiece is lush with diamonds, mother-of-pearl marquetry, and ruthenium crystal inlays that depict a moonscape rising above cascading breakers and sparkling foam. This exquisite union of evocative minerals and masterful mechanisms underlines the painstaking care lavished on the women’s collections of Switzerland’s most English brand.
AZURE, NAVY, INK, MIDNIGHT
Perpetual Moon 38 Night Tide is sculpted from a block of white gold, whittled down to 38 mm diameter and 10.44 mm thick case. The richly ornamented timepiece features IF-VVS round brilliant cut diamonds on the case and buckle, and marquise-cut diamonds on its dial, the scintillating stones total 2.62 carats.
Crest after crest, shades of blue and grey crash, creating a jumble of undulating seas, mother-of-pearl, and ruthenium. Above this scene, the starry sky, punctuated by luminescent hand-painted constellations, fills with an immense ruthenium crystal moon that lights up the sky. This exceptional material has become a precious and textural Arnold & Son signature.
THE GRANDE DAME OF MECHANISMS
This limited edition of 18 pieces celebrates the watchmaking excellence of Arnold & Son created with the feminine wrist in mind. The Swiss brand has dedicated the smallest movement in its collection to Perpetual Moon 38.
At 29.4 mm, the A&S1612 caliber has been sized to fit the case. The hand-wound movement perpetuates the house’s tradition of calibers with long power reserves, reaching 90 hours.
HER MAJESTY THE MOON
The star complication of the A&S1612 caliber is its moon phase. True to Arnold & Son’s astronomical principle, Perpetual Moon 38 Night Tide features a moon disc almost as large as the caliber itself. The successive shapes of its crescent occupy the large aperture between 10 and 2 o’clock, while the form of its cut-out faithfully recreates the appearance of the moon.
In keeping with its tradition, Arnold & Son has given this moon phase an accuracy of 122 years. Continuously rising, it will take more than a century for this moon to lag one day behind its real counterpart in the skies, watching over the oceans.
About Arnold & Son
Arnold & Son is named after John Arnold, a renowned English watchmaker of the 18th century. The golden age of maritime explorations and discoveries ushered this precision into a new technical ideal – determining longitude at sea. Its immediate corollary was the identification of local time, which changed constantly as the observer moved along an east-west axis. Astronomy, chronometry, and what we now call world time are thus inextricably linked within one and the same question, to which John Arnold and his son devoted their lives, their art, and their genius.
This is how these three dimensions – Astronomy, Chronometry and World Time – have come to be embodied in the House’s contemporary timepieces. Echoes of John Arnold’s inventions and preoccupations, these principles represent the foundations on which the Arnold & Son collections are based. The twenty-plus calibers presented to date by Arnold & Son have all been designed and developed in-house and produced by its sister manufacturer, La Joux-Perret in La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland). This independence and creativity demonstrate the House’s ability to perpetuate John Arnold’s exceptional inventions.
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