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The Platinum 321 Is The Pinnacle Of Speedmaster Moonwatches
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spacemission
·Lunar meteorite sub-dials but which lunar meteorite precisely, paying that amount of money, any buyer would like to know as lunar meteorites are brittle fragile Stone Achondrites not as easy to work with as pure (stronger but rust-prone) Iron meteorites. So which lunar meteorite ? (NWA-number Dar Al Gani, or other ?)
Would I rather have another model, sure what about Fratello’s article “My Dream Speedmaster Is An Impossible-To-Find NASA Watch” about a Speedmaster with a practical bezel !
In the last century, my choice would have been a glycine airman over a longines zulu.
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watchstick_81
·FP Journe makes its movements out of 18k gold, so it doesn't present any real issues. That would certainly make a 321 movement special for their super high end platinum or gold cases.
I'm not sure platinum warrants the price difference from the regular stainless steel. That's just me though
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YY77
·I agree it's a crazy price nonetheless, but that goes for any platinum watch imho.
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·The 321PT dials costs approx 15.400 euros 😉 according to my Omega watchmaker. So don’t drop it indeed.
I read somewhere it’s the Dar-Al-Gani 400 stone, which Omega bought of big chunk of (or the complete stone)? Quite pricey!! The sourced stone is not mentioned in the booklet of the set but it’s more rare than the Soyuz 35th speedy for sure.
Paying a premium for such a special dial, wouldn't one like to know all the details of which exact meteorite was used?
There're basically three types of meteorites, Stony, Iron and Stony-Iron.
Iron meteorites slices show the Widmanstätten patterns (Thomson structure created by millions years of cooling) and can rust so the slices need a treatment!
Campo del Cielo (Argentina) and Zagora (Morocco) are well-known but for watch dials the Gibeon (Kalahari desert Namibia) is a favorite. 🤨
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Cartesian
·Waaw that's amazing as the Dar-Al-Gani (in fact Dur Al Gani - Libya) is a collectible Lunar Achondrite stony meteorite... and yet most watch makes provide a minimum on information, stating "The astonishing dial is formed from a genuine piece of iron meteorite".
Paying a premium for such a special dial, wouldn't one like to know all the details of which exact meteorite was used?
There're basically three types of meteorites, Stony, Iron and Stony-Iron.
Iron meteorites slices show the Widmanstätten patterns (Thomson structure created by millions years of cooling) and can rust so the slices need a treatment!
Campo del Cielo (Argentina) and Zagora (Morocco) are well-known but for watch dials the Gibeon (Kalahari desert Namibia) is a favorite. 🤨
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