CVDK Real Moon Joure

Product Details

• ColorsBrown
• Materials
  Sapphire Crystal, Alligator Leather Band, Sapphire Caseback, High Quality Stainless Steel
• Measurements
  11"L x 2"W x 0.5"H
• OriginNetherlands

— Movement: In-House CVDK7382 Automatic, 35 Jewels, Twin Barrel
— Power Reserve: 96 Hours
— Complication: CVDK Real Moon Joure Module
— Functions: Hours, Minutes, 3D Moon Phase
— Case: High Quality Steel, 40 mm Diameter
— Sapphire Crystal, Sapphire Crystal Caseback
— Dial: Brown With White Rhodium Plated Indexes
— Strap: Brown Alligator Leather
— Buckle: Logo Engraved Steel Folding Clasp

About the Designer

Christiaan van der Klaauw was born in Leiden in 1944, the city where the Netherlands’ greatest scientist of all time, namesake and inspiration Christiaan Huygens started his studies in 1645. Van der Klaauw attended the School for Instrument Makers (LiS) in Leiden, and acquired practical experience at the Leidse Sterrewacht, the world’s oldest university-affiliated observatory, which was established in 1633. In this magical world of stars and planets Christiaan van der Klaauw’s love of astronomy burgeoned.

After Christiaan van der Klaauw had completed a clock maker’s course as well he moved from Leiden to Joure in 1967, where he started working for a producer of Friesian grandfather clocks. In 1974 he started his own business and presented his first clock - with astronomical complications. In 1989 he received an honorable membership of the Swiss Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants (AHCI), whose members include watchmaking greats such as Vincent Calabrese, George Daniels, François-Paul Journe and Franck Muller. In 1992, he won the award for the most innovative movement design for his Pendule Variable in Basel, Switzerland. Two years later he started with his first wrist watch, the CVDK Satellite du Monde. In 2009, a new era began for Christiaan van der Klaauw. He was succeeded by the Dutch designer Daniël Reintjes. Daniël Reintjes had known and worked with Christiaan for many years since 1999, ever since he had asked him to produce watches for his own designer label ‘Dark Rush’. He got on extremely well with the watchmaker he respected so highly. Daniël ostarted repositioning the brand. The new team decided to focus exclusively on astronomical watches and models with new, beautiful astronomical complications were added. Daniël changed the companies strategy, philosophy and designed the watch collection in what it is today. This new direction was immediately awarded by winning the European Watch of the Year Award in 2011, 2012 and again in 2014. In 2014 — in a collaboration between Christiaan van der Klaauw Astronomical Watches and the legendary Van Cleef & Arpels — Daniël Reintjes designed the amazing masterpiece 'Midnight Planetarium Poetic Complication' - exclusively for Van Cleef & Arpels.

Until today, Christiaan van Der Klaauw Astronomical Watches is the only atelier in the world that is completely devoted to the design and the production of exclusive hand-made astronomical watches.

Shipping Information

• Shipping Availability
  Canada, United States
  
• Shipping Policy
  Discounted Shipping
• Discounted Shipping
  $29.00 first item / $29.00 each additional
• Ship In
  3-5 weeks ⓘ
  If the estimated time seems a bit long, it's because many items are shipped in bulk at the end of the sale (on Jun. 24), which is what affords you the discount. Some items are also made-to-order and/or are shipping internationally. The best things are worth waiting for!
• Return Policy
  Final sale, not eligible for return or cancellation