Maurice Lacroix Leather Strap Watches

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

Two new models have joined the ML Masterpiece collection. One is manual-wind the other automatic.The first one features the historic caliber Peseux 7046 created in 1968. This hand-wound movement is no longer manufactured today. It has the traditional balance wheel frequency of 21'600 bph. It features 17 jewels, blued steel screws, Incabloc shock protection, polished steel pallet and escapement wheel, Glucydur balance, Nivarox-1 balance spring, and a Nivaflex-1 main spring.The 40mm case can be had in steel or in steel/pink gold with an AR coated sapphire crystal, a screwed caseback with display back and offering water resistance of 50 meters.The dial is solid silver, with iridescent engraving, Roman or Arabic numerals and blued steel hands (hours/minutes/seconds).*Click for a larger image*The other one, is the Masterpiece Automatique which has a hand-decorated automatic movement, based on the ETA 2824-2 caliber with 25 jewels, blued steel screws, Incabloc shock protection, polished steel pallet and escapement wheel, Glucydur balance, Nivarox-1 balance spring, Nivaflex-1 main spring, and skeleton rotor.The 40mm case can be had in steel or in steel/pink gold with an AR coated sapphire crystal with screwed caseback and display back. Water resistance is good to 50 meters.The dial is solid silver with Roman or Arabic numerals, and blued steel seconds hand.*Click for a larger image*The Gold/Steel version*Click for a larger image*The movement*Click for a larger image*9/11/03