Apr 2001
In this issue:
Moon dust
Romain Jerome’s latest rare collectible sources its magic ingredient from the moon
Issue: Nov, 2009
Romain Jerome seem to have made watchmaking a near-impossible task. Firstly, they sourced metal from the Titanic and now, heading out of the atmosphere altogether, they incorporated moon dust in their celebratory new timepiece. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of man going to the moon, and with a suitably droll limited run of 1,969 watches, the Moon Dust-DNA is a stargazer’s fantasy – or a NASA nerd’s sole piece of dinner part conversation.
It’s not just the moon dust – retrieved from a rock brought back from the first mission, they say – on the face that should set an astronaut’s pulse racing; the straps are woven from genuine spacesuit thread while the hands are designed like the sun sensors on Apollo 11. All of which should have you scrambling for a chequebook to write out $450,000 for the most lunar module. Let’s hope our failure to get back to the moon since 1975 makes that an investment worth pursuing.
