Omega actually likes astronomical-themed timepieces, and the Speedmaster Moonphase is a mirrored image of this.
The fashionable Speedmaster Moonphase, which arrived in 2016, with a 44.25 mm stainless-steel case and an computerized caliber 9904 motion with Co-Axial Grasp Chronometer certification. A variation of the Speedmaster Moophase in the identical 44.25 mm-sized case, with the identical caliber 9904 motion, arrived in 2017, in a blue ceramic case, dubbed “Blue Facet of the Moon.” In 2018, a variation of the Speedmaster Moonphase “Blue Facet of the Moon” debuted, with a 44.25 mm diameter case, a complete weight of 106 grams, and an Aventurine glass dial, and that’s what’s pictured on this article.
The marquee complication of this watch shows the totally different moon phases (the sunlit portion of the moon, as noticed from Earth) — new moon, first quarter moon, full moon, and final quarter moon — by the use of a disk that rotates beneath a small aperture.
Aventurine is a pure gemstone, whereas aventurine glass is a man-made creation made to appear to be the gemstone, and to be clear, this dial is made from the man-made variant: aventurine glass. When mixed with a blue ceramic case, blue ceramic bezel, and 18K Sedna Gold (Omega’s proprietary non-fading rose-gold) for the fingers and indices, the watch positively pops visually.
At 44.25 mm x 17.10 mm, and 49.8 mm, with a 21 mm lug width, this isn’t conservatively sized like a Moonwatch or FOIS, that are 42 mm and 39 mm respectively, and far thinner. Even the Speedmaster Moonphase Meteorite, which launched in 2025, has a smaller, thinner, 43 mm x 13.61 mm stainless-steel case, with a 48.6 mm and a manually wound Moonphase geared up caliber 9914 motion Grasp Chronometer motion.
Closing Ideas
That includes an correct Moonphase indication, which includes a blue enamel aventurine glass Moonphase disc with close to and much sides of the moon in Sedna gold, is a cool complication to have, and exhibits the present section of the lunar cycle.
Suffice it to say, the 44.25 mm Speedmasters have important wrist presence and are thus focused extra towards folks with bigger wrists. Furthermore, this isn’t an affordable at $16,900, and sure, the marginally smaller Speedmaster Moonphase Meteorite is in a stainless-steel case, not ceramic, comes with a handbook, not an computerized motion, and is much more costly at $19,300, however that watch does have a pure meteorite dial and arguably wears higher at 13 mm vs 17 mm in thickness, so it might be sensible to not less than think about that if you happen to’re trying on the Speedmaster Moonphase “Blue Facet of the Moon” Aventurine (Ref. 304.93.44.52.03.002).
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