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While De Bethune has incorporated ferrous meteorites – notably for its Dream Watch 5 cases and the DB28 Kind of Blue Tourbillon Meteorite dial – the independent watchmaker’s new timepiece features the world’s oldest known meteorite to date.
It is believed that the Muonionalusta meteorite struck Earth somewhere between Finland and Sweden on the banks of the Muniono river more than one million years BCE, with the first fragment discovered in Sweden back in 1906.
Housed in a black zirconium case, the dial of the De Bethune DB28XP Meteorite is cast from the extraordinary metal alloy forged in space, which endows it a distinctive texture along with out-of-this-world geometric patterns that make each timepiece unique. Composed mainly of iron and nickel, it is distinguished by the Widmanstätten pattern of cross-hatched lines at perfect 60° angles.
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Diamonds are everywhere and gold is certainly plentiful, so where do you look for something truly rare? How about a meteorite that crashed into the planet more than one million years ago.
De Bethune‘s co-founder Denis Flageollet is fascinated with the ancient metal, to the extent that he experiments with iron ore reduction processes in the hope of one day replicating the crystalline structure of Meteorite.
Meteorite has been a part of De Bethune’s collection twice before; once forming the dial of the DB28 Kind of Blue Meteorite and, most spectacularly, used to form the case of the one-of-a-kind Dream Watch 5.