After the successful "LUNAR" chronograph, Chronoswiss now presents a smaller automatic version that also bears the name "LUNAR", right on time for the 1999 Basel watch fair. The name is no coincidence, for the moon, set against a deep blue night sky, passes through its light phases, dictated by the position of the sun, moon and earth, in an unusually large window. This is surrounded by the 31 calendar day numbers, which a small hand points to. Day and month are displayed near the "12". As is customary at Chronoswiss, the solid silver face is designed with painstaking attention to detail. The interplay of guilloche surfaces underlines the valence this wristwatch gains through the additional functions. The time, indicated in seconds, minutes and hours by Losange hands, is kept by the Chronoswiss exclusive Caliber C.931. But it has one feature that is only to be found at Chronoswiss: the skeleton rotor, yet another special Chronoswiss extra with a convenient additional benefit for the wearer: the calendar only has to be adjusted every two months, namely in the months with 31 days. The Chronoswiss case that you know from the Lunar, waterproof up to 30 meters and with threaded wristband lugs, is available in platinum, gold, steel/gold and stainless steel. Face and movement are protected by reflex-free sapphire glass. The question why Chronoswiss decided to go against the current trend with such a large moon-phase display is perhaps best answered the owner of Chronoswiss himself, Gerd-Rüdiger Lang: "In earlier times most timepieces had such large moon indicators. Nowadays things have changed. But as we all know, my watches run a hundred years too slow."
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