Apollo 11
The silver dial is worked in micro-painting and hand engraving.
- Level
- Super Premium
- Diameter
- 44 mm
- Calibre
- ETA 6497-1 UNITAS, modifiedSwiss hand-wound calibre
- Dial
- Silver, micro-painting, hand engraving
- Case
- Stainless steel, sapphire crystal
- Strap
- Lizard leather, handmade
- Price
- Set individually, in direct conversation with the watch designer.
The workshop takes on a small number of commissions each year.
The story on the dial
On the descent, the onboard computer began to raise alarms. The first was 1202, in the middle of the landing: the processor was receiving more tasks than it could carry. At Houston it was decided, within seconds, that the alarm would not stop the descent.
The crew came back with 21.55 kilograms of lunar rock and soil.
A dial that carries this mission chooses between two things: the image everyone knows, or the moment when everything could have stopped. The first is recognised from a distance and says nothing. The second asks someone to explain it, and that is exactly the point of an object worn every day.
The silver took the engraving first, then the painting. The surface is built in layers that read only from close up, under light falling from the side. Forty-four millimetres were needed for the scene to fit without being lost.
Sources for this text: NASA, Apollo Lunar Surface Journal, NASA, Apollo 11 mission fact sheet.
