Luxury Moonphase Watches For Men [Watch Reviews]

If you’re a fan to moonphase watches, from the following watch brands you can find moon-phase watches:

• Baume & Mercier
• Frederique Constant
• Ball Watch Company
• Casio G-Shock

On the watch’s face when you see a small opening on the dial, it is a typical feature of a moon-phase watch.

Basically, a moonphase watch is a watch that displays the different phases of the Moon (as it travels around the earth) through this small opening (or aperture) on its dial.

Moon-phase refers to the shape of the moon’s portion that is lighted by the sun as it is seen from the earth. Moon phase is also known as lunar phase.

You can easily see the current phase of the moon exactly as it should look in the sky at night time, through the moonphase watch’s aperture.

The moon-phase works like this:

• The moon orbits the earth while the earth orbits the sun.
• During a calendar month, the shape of the moon gradually changes throughout the month.
• The new moon phase is when the moon is between the earth and the sun. This is the phase we are unable to see the moon at all.
• The full moon phase is when the earth is between the moon and the sun, and that’s when the moon is behind the earth, we will see the moon illuminated.

We (humans) living on earth can only see the moon when the sun shines on the moon. The purpose of the aperture (or the opening on the dial) is to hide the portion of the moon that is supposed to be invisible.

The moonphase watch accuracy may be a downside of using this type of timepiece. Many moonphase watches will need to have their time re-calibrated in about three years.

This issue has to do with how the lunar calendar works. This is caused by the limitation of how moonphase watches are manufactured.

In a lunar month, it has 29 days, 12 hours and 44 minutes. But most moonphase watches are given about 59 teeth on the gear.

Before you start setting a moonphase watch, you will need a lunar calendar. You can simply Google and find a lunar calendar that works for you.

Pull the watch crown to it final position. When the time of the watch stops running, you know the crown has reached its final position.

Refer to your lunar calendar. Now you can turn the crown until the watch reaches the correct moon position.

The hands of the watch will move while you’re setting the moonphase.

When the moon-phase is accurately set, set the hour and minute hands back to the correct time.

Set the date to the correct date.

Now push the crown all the way back to its original position.

When it comes to men’s luxury watches or men’s smart watches, you have plenty options to start shopping for. For men’s moon-phase watches, you can find from our watch reviews below.

• 1. Baume & Mercier Men's Blue Clifton Watch BM0A10548
• 2. Frederique Constant Men’s Classics Heart Beat Moonphase Brown Watch FC-335MC4P5
• 3. Frederique Constant Men’s Classics Heart Beat Moonphase Black Watch FC-335MC4P6
• 4. Ball Trainmaster Moon Phase Men's Silver Watch NM3082D-SJ-SL
• 5. Ball Trainmaster Moon Phase Men's Blue Watch NM3082D-SJ-BE
• 6. Ball Engineer II Moon Calendar Men's Green Watch NM3016C-S1J-WHGR
• 7. Ball Roadmaster Ocean Explorer Men's Blue Watch DM3120C-SCJ-BE
• 8. Casio G-Shock Tide Graph Men's Black Watch GW-7900-1ER

Let’s start our watch reviews with this easy to spot and iconic moon-phase watch.

With a polished stainless steel case, a grey lacquered dial and rhodium-plated riveted indexes, the Baume & Mercier watch is immediately equipped with elegant magnetic appearance.

The moonphase aperture is a blue starry night sky sitting at 6 o’clock on the watch dial while the watch is powered by a reliable manufacture self-winding calibre, making it a highly attractive moon-phase watch for collectors.

View Baume & Mercier Men's Blue Clifton Watch BM0A10548.

If you want a traditional and classic looking watch, you may like this Frederique Constant men’s watch. The watch gives you the design in modern, luxury and contemporary.

View Frederique Constant Men’s Classics Heart Beat Moonphase Brown Watch FC-335MC4P5.

The major differences between this watch and the previous Frederique Constant timepiece are the watch strap colour and the case colour.

View Frederique Constant Men’s Classics Heart Beat Moonphase Black Watch FC-335MC4P6.

The Ball brand is most famous for its design and contributions to railroad watches. This Ball Trainmaster silver watch goes up a notch and has luminous indication for moon-phase aperture and hours and minutes hands.

View Ball Trainmaster Moon Phase Men's Silver Watch NM3082D-SJ-SL.

If blue is your favourite colour, the watch comes with a blue face/dial and this is where this Ball watch differs from the previous Trainmaster watch.

View Ball Trainmaster Moon Phase Men's Blue Watch NM3082D-SJ-BE.

Silver as the main colour makes this limited watch a high-end looking timepiece. This Ball Engineer II watch uses 16 micro gas tubes for illumination lighting on the hour and minute hands and the indexes.

View Ball Engineer II Moon Calendar Men's Green Watch NM3016C-S1J-WHGR.

If you always like playing with watch bezels, this Ball Roadmaster watch should be your first choice of a moon-phase watch. It comes with a bidirectional rotating bezel and aluminium plate. For night vision, the watch can be illuminated with Super LumiNova sapphire crystal.

View Ball Roadmaster Ocean Explorer Men's Blue Watch DM3120C-SCJ-BE.

If you need moon-phase watch and at the same time you have very limited budget, explore the Casio brand, and in this G-Shock you’ll find one that is very affordable.

The moon phase and tide graphs tracking are the obvious additional tools for wearers who are also marine enthusiasts.

View Casio G-Shock Tide Graph Men's Black Watch GW-7900-1ER.

You may want to find other men’s watches from our collections:

• Baume & Mercier men’s watches
• Frederique Constant men’s watches
• Ball watches
• G-Shock men’s watches