Burbidge
MOONPHASE
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- Case size: 38.5mm x 43.8mm x 10.5mm
- Case Material: 316L marine-grade stainless steel
- Water Resistance: 50M / 5 ATM
- Movement: Swiss Made Sellita SW288-1 Ma Elaboré Grade movement, blue screws with bespoke Farer embossed patterned bridge
- Power Reserve: Approximately 45 hours when fully wound
Short 14cm - 17.5cm wrist
Regular 16cm - 22cm wrist
Long 18cm - 24cm wrist
Burbidge
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ONCE IN A BLUE MOON
The Burbidge features a stunning arctic blue sunburst dial that shimmers in the light, with a clean blue minute track along its edge. The centrepiece of the dial is naturally the large moonphase aperture with its hand-painted disc. The moon is a baby pink moon that contrasts perfectly with the blue of the dial. Like the moons on the other moonphase models, the moon on the Burbidge references a real shade the moon can appear. In this case, the Pink Moon is the name the Native Americans gave to the April full moon. Against this colourful backdrop are mounted clean baton markers fashioned from blocks of Grade OL X1 Super-LumiNova, along with a razor-sharp polished lance handset that’s also lumed.
Features
Lunar Orbit - Each moonphase disc is hand-painted in Geneva, Switzerland and features a textured moon set against a starry sky. What’s more, the moons themselves are painted using Super-LumiNova so that they glow brightly in the dark.
Curvaceous Comfort - The cushion case sits comfortably on any wrist, with a thickness of only 10.5mm and a compact lug-to-lug of 43.8mm.
Manual Drive - The watches in the Moonphase collection are powered by Swiss hand-wound mechanical movements with custom decoration, which can be viewed through a sapphire case back.
STORY
The Burbidge is named in honour of Margaret Burbidge, a British-American observational astronomer and astrophysicist. In the 1950s, together with her husband Geoffrey, William Alfred Fowler and Fred Hoyle at the University of Cambridge, she helped develop landmark research into stellar nucleosynthesis, which is the creation of elements via nuclear fusion with stars.
Burbidge would go on to hold several prominent positions throughout her career. In 1962, she joined the University of California San Diego (UCSD), where she continued her research. It was here she discovered quasar QSO B1442+101, which at the time was the most distant known object from Earth.
Burbidge was a keen campaigner against gender discrimination in astronomy, something she, unfortunately, had personal experience of. This extended to both positive and negative discrimination against women, and in 1972 she turned down an award from the American Astronomical Society because it was awarded to women only. In the 1980s, Burbidge helped to develop the Faint Object Spectrograph for the Hubble Space Telescope. With this, she and her team discovered that the galaxy Messier 82 contains a supermassive black hole at its centre.
tech specs
Dimensions
| Diameter | 38.5mm |
| Depth | 10.5mm |
| Lug-to-Lug | 43.8mm |
| Pin-to-Pin | 41mm |
| Lug Width | 20mm |
Case Material
316L marine-grade stainless steel
Case Finish
Polished, with brushed bezel chamfer and "grain twist' pattern on flanks
Glass
Curved sapphire crystal with multi-layer anti-reflective coating on the underside. Sapphire exhibition glass on case back
Dial
Arctic blue sunray dial with applied baton markers made from Grade OL X1 Super-LumiNova. Hand-painted blue moonphase disc with a pink moon in Grade OL X1 Super-LumiNova
Hands
Polished lance handset, applied with Grade OL X1 Super-LumiNova, and with blue-tipped polished seconds hand
Crown
Rounded stainless steel with solid bronze cap insert featuring embossed Farer 'A'
Strap
St. Venere leather, 316L stainless steel buckle fastening
Water Resistance
50M / 5 ATM
Movement
Movement
Swiss Made Sellita SW288-1 Ma Elaboré Grade movement, blue screws with bespoke Farer embossed patterned bridge
Vibrations
28,800 vibrations per hour (4 Hz)
Functions
Hours, minutes, sweep second. Hacking seconds for precision time setting. Quickset date and moonphase display.
Winding
Manual winding
Jewels
18
Power Reserve
Approximately 45 hours when fully wound
fitting
press
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