Christiaan van der Klaauw Real Moon Joure Horizon

Quick specs Christiaan van der Klaauw Real Moon Joure Horizon
Price: € 32.750 | approx. $ 36,000 | approx. £ 28,500
Size: 40 mm
Reference: unknown

In 2012 Christiaan van der Klaauw presented the Real Moon Joure, part of the Real Moon collection of astronomical watches. The collection features more than ten models with different dial colors and/or case materials, all with a very clean dial layout. And a moon phase complication. This Christiaan van der Klaauw Real Moon Joure Horizon, a special edition, has a gorgeous colorful dial.

The dial is oil-painted by the artist Gaël Colon. It suggests the sun peaking over a moon landscape. Bright and clear in shades of blue and white. At 6 o’clock there is a three-dimensional moon indicating the true moon phase. The 3D miniature moon is also hand-made and the indication is quite precise.

The Christiaan van der Klaauw Real Moon Joure Horizon has the most accurate 3D moon phase in the world

The Moon fully rotates around the Earth in 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes and 2.9 seconds. The 3D moon does the same with an extreme accuracy as it deviates only one day in 11,000 years (!). For that reason, the Christiaan van der Klaauw Real Moon Joure Horizon has the most accurate 3D moon phase in a mechanical watch in the world, the manufacturer claims. There is no need to doubt that although it seems not really possible to check…

The Christiaan van der Klaauw Real Moon Joure Horizon is limited to 10 pieces and as it is hand-painted no piece is the same.