Story continues Hermès Arceau L’Heure de la Lune Available in a limited edition of 10 numbered pieces, the DB28XP Meteorite is encased in black zirconium. Discovered in Sweden in 1906, the cosmic shard is believed to have struck the earth more than one million years ago. The newest timepiece to emerge from the De Bethune workshop is not the first one to feature a blued meteorite dial (the DB28 Kind of Blue Meteorite holds that distinction) but it is the first to feature a slice of Muonionalusta Meteorite, thought to be the world’s oldest. Check them out below, along with a handful of other examples of luxury watches that do double-duty as extraterrestrial specimens. De Bethune, Louis Moinet, Louis Vuitton and Rolex all introduced new pieces featuring meteorite dials at the spring watch events. Now, the selection of timepieces featuring dials distinguished by the perfectly geometrical lines of the “Widmanstätten” pattern found in octahedrite iron meteorites (the type most commonly used by watchmakers) are cropping up all over the place. McLaren Teams Up With Richard Mille for Powerful New Watch Inspired by the Speedtail So they’ve turned to the only material available: meteorites that originated in asteroids or exploding planets and improbably made their way to Earth, only to crash land in places like Sweden or Namibia, before being discovered, traded, cut and acid-treated into discs small enough to fit the dial of a wristwatch.Ĭartier and Panerai's Parent Company Is Planning to Open Multi-Brand Watch Stores in the USįrom Louis Vuitton to IWC: 3 New Sports Watches That Are Ready to Rumble Over the past five years or so, many have decided that beyond emulating the workings of the universe, they want their watches to incorporate actual pieces of it. For the most part, however, they’ve indulged their interest by making timepieces, from the earliest astrolabes to the working planetarium wristwatches of Van Cleef & Arpels, that boast a functional relationship to the heavens. Watchmakers have long been obsessed with the cosmos.

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