After celebrating the depths of the night sky with its first Classic Moon models, Laurent Ferrier turns to the moment when time seems to stand still — when the last reflections of daylight imbue the landscape with taupe, brown and golden hues. The Classic Moon Dusk, a new Série Atelier, captures that suspended moment on the wrist.
For the first time, the Maison’s pebble-shaped Classic case — inspired by 19th-century pocket watches, with its softly curved lugs and signature ball-shaped crown — is crafted in yellow gold. The warm metal sets the palette for the entire composition: an opaline gradient dial deepens from taupe at the centre to rich brown at the edge, with white-transferred Roman numerals, a chocolate-toned logo, pale yellow date numerals and an ochre “31” closing each monthly cycle. The white gold Assegai hands are painted white for instant legibility; the central date hand is polished yellow gold.
The heart of the piece is Laurent Ferrier’s moon phase, reinterpreted for dusk. The moon disc is cut from gold sheen obsidian — a deep black stone with subtle green, brown and golden reflections — engraved, hand-painted, enhanced with Super-LumiNova and fired at high temperature to reveal lunar craters and textured stars. Above it floats a moon bridge in anise-yellow plique-à-jour enamel, an age-old technique that creates a lattice of translucent enamel with no metal base, letting light shine through as if the bridge were suspended in air. “N” and “S” markers recall that the moon’s phases reverse between hemispheres.
Day and month windows sit at 12 o’clock, correctors are discreetly integrated into the case flank, and a supplied stylus adjusts the calendar. Between sky and earth, this is haute horlogerie at its most atmospheric.
