Loresum Anyone?
I recently ran into this watch, which caught my eye. I'm starting to get the itchy "OMG must have!" feeling that drives my purchase decisions. There's almost nothing out there about Loresum, and no coverage by the usual media or social media suspects, so I though I'd see if folks here have thoughts or experience with the brand.
So, it's another Kickstarter special, and another aventurine dial moonphase with big lumed moon. The similarity with the new Christopher Ward moonphase is obvious, which will prompt people to jump up and say "OMG knockoff!", except this was in the works long before the CW release (is Loresum lucky or unlucky that they made their announcement so soon after Christopher Ward?).
I think I like the looks of the Loresum better. The CW is too sterile, and I don't think I can cope with no hour markers. The Loresum is 1mm smaller, a plus, and has a Kickstarter price of $600 and change, a major plus compared to the CW $2325, almost a quarter the price. Among the downsides vs. CW is the movement, Miyota vs. Sellita. Christopher makes much of their in house moonphase module, with they say is accurate for 128 years, and turns continuously, vs. the Loresum, which runs on the more standard 29.5 day cycle, which will be off every 2 years, and jumps stepwise each day. And is moves right to left, which makes the waxing and waning of the moon in the reverse direction of the actual moon in the northern hemisphere. Some people in the Kickstarter comments make much of this; I don't know if I should care.
I'm not sure if I'm trying to talk myself into or out of the watch. What say you?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/loresum/loresum-ls04-295-day-true-moon-phase-watch
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Awesome watch
I never buy watches that do not yet exist.
Honestly I wish the Christopher Ward looked a bit more like this and hope future iterations of their big aventurine moonphase includes indices.
Did you want a moon phase before you saw this Loresum?
Did you want a moon phase before you saw this Loresum?
Not particularly. I have a general interest in a moon phase, as a would be nice someday kind of thing. The the original Christopher Ward Moonglow caught my eye, but didn't excite me enough to actually get one (then I saw one at the Windup Watch Show, and it didn't impress me that much in person; now that I look, they discontinued it! 😮). This watch intrigues me somehow, and tugs on some strings.
Honestly I wish the Christopher Ward looked a bit more like this and hope future iterations of their big aventurine moonphase includes indices.
So why not consider this? It's the less sterile, more practical (and cheaper) Christopher Ward Moonphase.
So why not consider this? It's the less sterile, more practical (and cheaper) Christopher Ward Moonphase.
When was this hobby ever logical? Haha
When was this hobby ever logical? Haha
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If I didn't own a moonphase watch already, I would have bought the loresum.
Not particularly. I have a general interest in a moon phase, as a would be nice someday kind of thing. The the original Christopher Ward Moonglow caught my eye, but didn't excite me enough to actually get one (then I saw one at the Windup Watch Show, and it didn't impress me that much in person; now that I look, they discontinued it! 😮). This watch intrigues me somehow, and tugs on some strings.
It is not discontinued. Case and dial modified.
It is not discontinued. Case and dial modified.
The gave it a different name, and the design is quite substantially different. Among other things, the older Moonglow had hour indexes and a date, and look is quite different. So I think it's more than just an update. be that as it may, it looks like the Moonglow has reappeared on the website as a "second iteration," so it was temporarily gone.
The gave it a different name, and the design is quite substantially different. Among other things, the older Moonglow had hour indexes and a date, and look is quite different. So I think it's more than just an update. be that as it may, it looks like the Moonglow has reappeared on the website as a "second iteration," so it was temporarily gone.
Yes. For a while it was absent. But it came back