![]() Viewed indoors – or outdoors at an oblique angle – the MeisterSinger Lunascope’s viz issues disappear. If not that, they fade out around the edges. They’re all double digits, with minimal space between some of the numbers (especially the 02 and 09) At certain angles, the numbers glint ferociously in the sun. The Lunascope’s shiny gold applied indices are the real anti-legibility culprit. Even when the near-sighted old man (that’s me) removes his coke-bottle bottom glasses and peers into the dial, ascertaining the small indices indicating fifteen minute intervals is a bitch. Turns out 3mm makes a huge difference for approximate time telling. ![]() 2 (right) puts paid to detractors’ “what time is it?” lament, the Lunascope is kvetch –worthy. ![]() But the MeisterSinger Lunascope isn’t large enough to overcome the primary objection to a single-handed watch: legibility. The Lunascope case clocks in at 40mm – a more-than-merely adequate canvas for the show (only. The moon rotating around the dial is 9.5mm in diameter – large enough to laugh at high horology’s wimpy lunar depictions and enthral moon-phase-loving lunatics. (Less forebodingly, It’s Only a Paper Moon.) Holding a big ass moon-phase watch up to an actual full moon is an experience every watch enthusiast should experience, preferably after listening to Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Bad Moon Rising. I’m not saying I joined team Jacob when the golden orb hovered under the 12, but there’s something stirring about watching the Swiss-made horological moon slowly approach its apogee. Our test watch, the sunburst blue and gold version (far right), provides a more dramatic, more compelling lunar presence. Two of the three MeisterSinger Lunascope’s go the same route one with a black-and-white moon on an opaline-silver dial (left), the other with the same lunar image on a sunburst blue dial (center). Ward’s watch is a monochromatic moon-phase meisterwerk. Is the Lunascope out-of-this-world or a complication too far for a single-handed watch that takes minimalism to infinity, and beyond?. Like the five-star Christopher Ward C1 Moonglow, MeisterSinger’s lunar watch puts the Earth’s partner front and center. Any watch containing a lunar complication has my attention. The MeisterSinger Lunascope appeals to the little boy in me, fascinated by the America v.
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