luxury watch made from meteorites, included in the Guinness Book of Records
The watch house Les Ateliers Lous Moinet has developed the Cosmopolis, a watch with the largest number of meteorite inserts in the world, consisting of a total of twelve fragments of these celestial bodies.
Gold or diamond watches no longer surprise anyone. At least compared to meteor clocklike Cosmopolis, which even managed to enter Guinness Book of Records. This is a completely unique 18K rose gold watch designed by a prestigious Swiss watch house. Louis Moinet. “Microcosm of macrocosm,” says its description on the official website of Les Ateliers Louis Moinet. And it’s not surprising when you consider that this is a watch with highest number of meteorite insertions peace. This is evidenced by the title awarded Cosmopolis watch in Geneva, Switzerland, is included in the Guinness Book of Records.
“I was collecting rare meteoriteseach has its own story,” explains Jean-Marie Schaller, owner and creative director. He adds: “These captivating stories were the creative spark that spawned Cosmopolis. “Cosmopolis is not just a great work of watchmaking, it is a historical and scientific journey.” An ambitious project with which they wanted to join passion for space and the elegance and timelessness of watchmaking.
What is the Cosmopolis watch?
He Cosmopolis, the latest masterpiece from Les Ateliers Louis Moinet, is an 18k rose gold watch powered by the manually wound LM135 caliber, an off-center tourbillon, a frequency of 28,800 vibrations per hour (4 Hz) and a power reserve of 96 hours. It features an alligator leather strap, a folding clasp and is water resistant to thirty metres. Although there is no doubt that the most striking and inevitably attracting everyone’s attention is spectacular sphere with meteorite fragments.
twelve meteorites It is what is on the dial that has earned the Guinness Book of Records for the watch with the largest number of inlays from these fragments of celestial bodies. Each of them is positioned to create a unique constellation. For this reason, in the center is the rarest stone of all – lunar meteorite. In turn, the tourbillon cage has another remarkable detail – black chondrite. While the remaining ten complete the sphere in a circle.
Meteorites of the Cosmopolis clock
He lunar meteorite Dhofar 461 This is the main character located in the central part of the Cosmopolis clock. It was found in Oman and is an extremely rare specimen, distinguished by a white mottled interior. There are currently only three hundred lunar meteorites recorded to have fallen from the Moon over the past 20 million years.
Just below this is black chondritic meteorite L5, which was found in the Sahara Desert. These are the remains of two asteroids impacting in space. Its peculiarity is that chondrites are considered the first elements to become planets.
As for the rest, first on the left is Martian meteorite Dhofar 1674. Also found in Oman, it is one of the rarest objects of Martian origin, with only three hundred such objects discovered worldwide to date. The next one is Allende meteorite, whose origins can be traced back to a meteor shower and its location in Mexico. According to Louis Moinet’s official website, this is the most studied meteorite in history. Known as the “Rosetta Stone” for the valuable information it provided scientists about the solar system and its formation. Its age is estimated at 4.567 million years.
The third of the ten who run around the sphere is Erg Czech meteorite, an asteroid found in Algeria, specifically in the sand sea from which it received its name. It is the oldest igneous rock known today. Its origins go back to a protoplanet older than Earth that disappeared. This is followed by Meteorite Jbilet Winzelmanan asteroid found in Morocco containing traces of amino acids believed to be possibly the first traces of life known in space.
Then he will come Isheevsky meteorite, a carbonaceous chondrite found in Russia. And then Meteorite Aletai Armanty, found in China. The seventh is Aguas Zarcas meteoritefrom Costa Rica, which was part of a meteor shower that struck the rainforest in 2019. Gibeon meteoritean asteroid that was found in Namibia when it fell to Earth in prehistoric times.
Another, also found in Mexico, is Toluca MeteoriteIt is assumed that he could have collided with the planet more than ten thousand years ago. It was opened in 1776. Finally, Meteorite Sahara 97093found in the desert and has particularly strange properties, being microdiamonds formed in the hearts of stars that exploded and went supernova.