Laurent Ferrier’s Classic Moon has always sat in the quieter corner of complicated watchmaking, where proportion and finishing matter as much as the calendar itself.
The new Classic Moon Dusk Série Atelier keeps the annual calendar and moon phase architecture intact, but changes the temperature completely with yellow gold, earthy dial tones and a more atmospheric moon display.
Limited to just 20 pieces, it’s a collector-focused variation that leans into the brand’s talent for restraint without making the watch feel austere.
At a glance
- Laurent Ferrier has introduced the Classic Moon Dusk Série Atelier in a 40mm yellow-gold case.
- The watch combines an annual calendar, double moon phase, gradient opaline dial and gold-sheen obsidian moon disc.
- Production is limited to 20 pieces, priced at CHF 93,000 excluding taxes and offered exclusively by Laurent Ferrier.
A warmer take on the Classic Moon
The case remains Laurent Ferrier’s familiar Galet form, a polished pebble-like silhouette with soft transitions and lugs that seem to flow out of the caseband.
At 40mm wide and 12.9mm thick, the proportions stay aligned with the earlier Classic Moon models, but the 18k 2N yellow gold gives this version a distinctly different presence.
It’s not a sharp, architectural case in the contemporary sense.
The appeal is in the way the curves catch light, which suits a watch built around dusk as its central visual idea.
The ball-shaped crown handles the calendar adjustments, while the case hides two correctors into the left flank.
The day corrector sits at 10 o’clock, and the moon phase corrector is positioned between 8 and 9 o’clock.
Water resistance is rated to 30 metres, which is consistent with the dress-complication character of the piece.
The dusk dial and its obsidian moon
The dial moves from light taupe at the centre to deep chocolate brown around the outer edge, using an opaline gradient finish to create a soft, evening-like transition.
White Roman numerals at 3, 9 and 12 o’clock are paired with baton markers, while the minute track is printed in a lighter taupe.
The annual calendar layout is balanced rather than busy.
Day and month appear through bevelled windows at 12 o’clock, a central pointer hand tracks the date around the periphery, and the small seconds and moon phase share the lower register at 6 o’clock.
The peripheral date numerals are printed in pastel yellow, with the 31 picked out in ochre.
It’s a small touch, but one that keeps the calendar scale tied to the warmer palette of the case and dial.
Laurent Ferrier’s Assegai-shaped hour and minute hands are made from white gold and painted white for contrast, while the central date hand is polished yellow gold.
The moon phase is where the watch becomes more unusual.
Instead of a conventional blue moon disc, Laurent Ferrier uses gold-sheen obsidian, a naturally black stone that can reveal green, brown and golden reflections depending on the light.
The moons and stars are engraved, hand-painted with white Super-LumiNova, fired at high temperature and then finished with additional detailing.
Above that dark stone sits an anise-yellow moon bridge made using plique-à-jour enamel.
Because this translucent enamel technique has no metal backing, light can pass through it, giving the bridge an airy quality over the obsidian surface.
The display also includes N and S markings, a nod to the fact that the lunar phases are viewed in reverse between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
The LF126.02 calibre keeps the complication practical
Inside is the hand-wound Laurent Ferrier calibre LF126.02, a manufacture movement combining an annual calendar with a precision moon phase.
The annual calendar differentiates between 30- and 31-day months, so it needs one manual correction each year on 1 March.
For a watch with this level of visual calm, that practicality matters.
The calibre runs at 21,600 vibrations per hour and offers an 80-hour power reserve, with the reserve indication placed on the movement side rather than on the dial.
That choice helps preserve the symmetry of the front while giving the owner useful information through the sapphire caseback.
The movement finishing follows the language collectors expect from Laurent Ferrier.
Bridges are treated with rhodium-plated Côtes de Genève, the mainplate is circular-grained, and the bevels, interior angles and screw heads are polished by hand.
Details & Specifications
| Brand | Laurent Ferrier |
|---|---|
| Model | Classic Moon Dusk Série Atelier |
| Reference | LCF039.J2.BW1 |
| Case size | 40mm diameter, 12.9mm thick |
| Case material | 18k 2N yellow gold |
| Water resistance | 30 metres |
| Dial | Light taupe to chocolate opaline gradient |
| Moon display | Gold-sheen obsidian disc with Super-LumiNova moons and stars, anise-yellow plique-à-jour enamel bridge |
| Movement | Laurent Ferrier calibre LF126.02, hand-wound |
| Functions | Hours, minutes, small seconds, annual calendar, double moon phase, power reserve on the back |
| Components | 266 |
| Jewels | 25 |
| Frequency | 21,600 vibrations per hour |
| Power reserve | 80 hours |
| Strap | Mocha nubuck with tone-on-tone Alcantara lining |
| Buckle | Yellow-gold pin buckle |
| Production | Limited to 20 pieces |
| Price | CHF 93,000 excluding taxes |
| Availability | Exclusively from Laurent Ferrier |
A Série Atelier piece for discreet collectors
The Classic Moon Dusk Série Atelier is worn on a mocha nubuck strap with tone-on-tone Alcantara lining, a pairing that makes sense against the dial’s brown and taupe register.
It’s a watch for collectors who want a complication with real daily usefulness, but not one that announces itself through size or visual noise.
The 20-piece limit and Laurent Ferrier-only availability place it firmly in the brand’s more intimate production lane.
More importantly, the Dusk treatment gives the Classic Moon a mood of its own, turning a technically accomplished annual calendar into one of the warmer and more poetic pieces in the current Laurent Ferrier catalogue.
