Maurice Lacroix Maurice Lacroix Watches

This watch should rightly be called the Moon Lady if we were to provide its nomenclature. But sans that power, we are content just viewing the Maurice Lacroix Masterpiece Phase De Lune Dame watch, while it accompanies us during a lovely evening.The Maurice Lacroix Masterpiece Phase De Lune Dame watch is an elegant timepiece encased in stainless steel with sapphire cabochons. The mother-of-pearl dial with an intricate design comes with functions for hour, minutes and seconds. Just below the 12 o'clock position are two rectangular windows indicating the day and the month. What keeps the watch luxurious are the four diamonds to indicate each quarter of an hour.The bezel of the Maurice Lacroix Masterpiece Phase De Lune Dame watch is filled with 50 diamonds or 0.835 Karats. Top that with a glamorous ostrich leather strap and you will surely wallow in elegance the rest of your life.The watch is being sold for only $8,900 and that is quite a steal considering its looks and functions. It was made for ladies and comes in a 35mm diameter size.

Since Maurice Lacroix introduced their (around 1990), they are able to compete with brands like Chronoswiss, Omega, Ebel and probably some more brands that can be seen as ‘settled’. Maurice Lacroix is a relatively new player (1975) and in 2006 they introduced their manufacture chronograph movement. Maurice Lacroix produces 150.000 watches per year, of which 40.000 watches have a mechanical movement. How come that Maurice Lacroix gets so little attention from serious watch collectors and afficinados? Their price setting is really competitive and I have yet to see some complaints about the quality of these watches. One of the few things I can think of, is that Maurice Lacroix ruins their credibility amongst collectors/afficinados by producing ‘cheap’ quartz watches as well. Do they?Take a look at this beautiful Lune Retrograde:This watch has a handwound ML104 movement based on ETA caliber 6498-1. With the domed sapphire crystal, massive silver dial and stainless steel 43.5mm case, Maurice Lacroix presents a serious wrist watch for mechanical watch collectors with a classic taste but who doesn’t want to be that conservative when it comes to watches. At least, in my opinion. So, why don’t I have one yet? I don’t know. I do love the classic designed Phase de Lune watch a lot, which is quite affordable (not the Retrograde!). You can get these off for approximately 1600 euro (BNIB). I read only little about people’s experiences with these watches, which brings me to the following point.There is no or only little coverage on Maurice Lacroix watches on the big watch fora like , and my friends at . A few days ago, someone asked about the general opinion on Maurice Lacroix (and Baume et Mercier for that matter) on TimeZone. . Most of the people that replied were quite positive, but only a few actually own a Maurice Lacroix.What do you think of them?