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Maurice Lacroix has unveiled the romantic designs in their Starside series in advance of the Baselworld watch show.The Maurice Lacroix Starside Eternal Moon has a 38mm stainless steel case and sapphire crystals. The watch shows hours, minutes and seconds indication with hands, date indication with central hand, weekday and month indication in windows at 5 and 7 o'clock, moon phase indication with disc at 12 o'clock. The softly beautiful dial is lacquered in pink and black or beige and black, set with 32 diamonds with a metallized sapphire crystal for moon phase indication.The Maurice Lacroix Starside Magic Seconds has a 38mm stainless steel case with a bezel and crown set with with 65 Top Wesselton diamonds. The movement is the automatic caliber ML161 with 31 jewels and the dial is white mother-of-pearl and silver color or lacquered in dark blue and silver color, set with 30 diamonds.The Maurice Lacroix Starside Sparkling Date with In-House Complications is a limited edition of 250 pieces. The movement is the automatic caliber ML127 with 30 jewels with special complications module designed in-house by ML. It has an indication of hours and minutes, retrograde date indication with diamond in a shaped window at 6 o'clock, moon phase indication with eccentric disc revealed by a cabochon of moonstone at 3 o'clock. The 38mm case is 8K white gold and the bezel and lugs are set with 82 Top Wesselton diamonds. The crown set with 9 diamonds and the dial is lacquered in purple and black.[via Time Zone]Gallery: Maurice Lacroix Starside Watches

Maurice Lacroix is one of those brands that grow and evolve fast enough as to be regarded as serious competition for the big names in the watch *** industry. With a relatively short history, but with many outstanding technical developments, the brand of Maurice Lacroix has been focusing on developing functions for the moon phase, retrograde displays and chronograph, being famous for its ML 106 manufacture movement. The brand's emphasis on technical performance hasn't influenced in any way the design of their timepieces, which all approach innovative design concepts and employ state-of-the-art technologies to manufacture the materials used for the case, bezel and dial. Resistant in any conditions, the watches produced by Maurice Lacroix have as a warranty their name in itself, as this brand has come to be synonym of high quality. The creative drive of the designers from Maurice Lacroix can be traced in any timepiece ever created by this brand, as each and one of them displays unique design features and exceptional technical functions meant to impress the Maurice Lacroix connoisseurs worldwide.The design of the new Masterpiece Lune Retrograde ML152 definitely screams sophistication and modernity by displaying futuristic features concentrated in its skeletonized dial. The case measures some generous 46 mm in diameter, providing a masculine and sporty appearance. This design hints to dynamism, continuous movement and definitely desire for action.The most appealing element at this watch, apart from its technical performance, is represented by its skeletonized dial, which adds a touch of originality specific to most of the watches produced by Maurice Lacroix. The dial features three other sub-dials, two of them identical and symmetrically placed, in the upper part of the dial, while another one can be found in the lower part of the dial, at 6 o'clock. The sub-dial from the upper right indicates the power reserve, while the opposite one shows the retrograde date function. The third mentioned sub-dial is actually a calibrated celestial disc, which displays the day of the week and the position of the moon-phase, all in a discreet and organized manner as to offer perfect legibility. Apart from these sub-dials, the dial also features Arabic numerals for the hours and it displays the traditional functions through a central hand. All these functions that the new Maurice Lacroix Masterpiece Lune Retrograde ML152 Watch provides are assured by the new ML 152 movement, a movement exclusively created by the House of Maurice Lacroix, capable of providing 100 m water resistance, *** this watch appropriate for diving as well. Due to the sophisticated materials and its complicated technical functions, the new Maurice Lacroix Masterpiece Lune Retrograde ML152 Watch will only be produced in 250 pieces, all available on black leather straps. Maurice Lacroix Masterpiece Lune Retrograde ML152 Pictures Gallery