As a big watch nerd, I love sharing cool watches with you guys in hopes that my obsession, as unseemly as it is, will be passed from writer to reader like an STD. This time I was lucky enough to be able to handle the new Ernst Benz Officer ChronoLunar, a huge "officer-style" chronograph with day-date-lunar cycle registers and a 24-hour dial.

To be clear, this watch uses the Valjoux 7751 movement found in any number of similarly-featured watches.

What Ernst Benz does best is big watches.

The sub-register hands -- the 24-hour dial, etc -- are unlumed, which makes the watch fairly useless as a date calculator in the pitch dark, but that can be forgiven given the complexity of the dial.