Reference
Meteorites
A meteorite dial is cut from a named rock with a recovery date and a catalog entry, and the names are not interchangeable — 24 of them here, across 63 documented watch models, 16 still being cut today. Each entry carries its Meteoritical Bulletin classification, where it was found, and the sources every claim was written from.
26 records
| Sources | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chondrite | CM2 carbonaceous chondrite | Aguas Zarcas, Alajuela, Costa Rica | 27 kg | Inset fragment | 1 | 0 | Yes | ||
Aletaialso Armanty, Aletai Armanty | Iron | Iron meteorite, IIIE-an | Xinjiang, China | more than 74 metric tonnes | Inset fragment, Dial components, Subdials | 4 | 0 | Yes | |
| Chondrite | CV3 carbonaceous chondrite | near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico | about 2 metric tonnes | Full dial, Sealed capsule, Inset fragment | 3 | 0 | Yes | ||
Canyon Diabloalso Meteor Crater meteorite | Iron | Iron meteorite, IAB-MG, coarse octahedrite | Meteor Crater, northern Arizona, United States | about 30 metric tonnes recovered | Full dial | 1 | 0 | No longer | |
Cape Yorkalso Agpalilik (a major mass), Saviksoah / Meteorite Island irons | Iron | Iron meteorite, IIIAB | Melville Bay area, northwest Greenland | 58.2 metric tonnes | Full dial | 1 | 0 | No longer | |
Dhofar 1674also Dho 1674 | Martian | Martian meteorite, olivine-phyric shergottite | Dhofar (Zufar), Oman | 49.2 g | Inset fragment | 1 | 0 | Yes | |
Dhofar 457also Dho 457 | Lunar | Lunar anorthositic meteorite | Dhofar (Zufar), Oman | 99.5 g | Full dial, Dial components | 3 | 0 | Yes | |
Dhofar 461also Dho 461 | Lunar | Lunar anorthositic meteorite | Dhofar (Zufar), Oman | 33.7 g | Inset fragment | 1 | 0 | Yes | |
Erg Chech 002also EC 002, Erg Chech (watchmaker shorthand) | Achondrite | Ungrouped achondrite | Erg Chech sand sea, Adrar, Algeria | 31.78 kg | Inset fragment | 1 | 0 | Yes | |
| Lunar | Lunar anorthositic meteorite | Ghadamis, Libya | 10 kg | Dial components | 1 | 0 | Yes | ||
| Iron | Iron meteorite, group IVA | Namibia, centered on the Gibeon strewn field | 26 metric tonnes (catalogued mass) | Full dial, Dial components, Sealed capsule, Inset fragment | 10 | 4 | Yes | ||
| Iron | Iron meteorite, IIIAB | Henbury crater field, Northern Territory, Australia | about 2 metric tonnes | Full dial | 3 | 1 | No longer | ||
| Chondrite | CH/CBb carbonaceous chondrite | near Isheyevo village, Bashkortostan, Russia | 16 kg | Inset fragment | 1 | 0 | Yes | ||
| Chondrite | CM2 carbonaceous chondrite | near Smara, Western Sahara | about 6 kg | Inset fragment, Dial components | 2 | 0 | Yes | ||
Kesenalso Okirai-Kesen (Louis Moinet marketing name) | Chondrite | H4 ordinary chondrite | Kesen district, present-day Iwate Prefecture, Tohoku, Japan | 135 kg | Inset fragment | 1 | 0 | Yes | |
| Iron | Iron meteorite, group IVA, fine octahedrite | Norrbotten County, northern Sweden, near the Finland border | 230 kg in the Meteoritical Bulletin catalogue; later private recoveries make real recovered mass higher | Full dial, Dial components | 17 | 12 | Yes | ||
| Iron | Iron meteorite, IIIAB | unknown; reportedly obtained via a fishing-vessel captain in New York | 2.95 kg | Dial components | 1 | 0 | No longer | ||
Northwest Africa 4881also NWA 4881 | Lunar | Lunar granulitic breccia | Mauritania or Algeria; purchased in Morocco | 606 g (paired clan totals at least 2.448 kg) | Moving sphere | 1 | 0 | No longer | |
| Chondrite | H5 ordinary chondrite | Jarayan al Batnah, Qatar | 6.7 kg in five pieces | Dial components | 1 | 0 | No longer | ||
| Chondrite | EH3 enstatite chondrite | Sahara Desert; precise coordinates not published | 1.359 kg, one catalogued piece | Inset fragment | 1 | 0 | Yes | ||
| Stony-iron | Main-group pallasite (PMG); some masses are metal-rich | Magadan Oblast, Russia | 323.3 kg in the official catalogue; later recoveries are reported outside the original entry | Full dial | 1 | 0 | Yes | ||
Shergottyalso Sherghati | Martian | Martian shergottite | Sherghati, Bihar, India | 5 kg | Inset fragment | 1 | 0 | No longer | |
| Martian | Martian olivine-phyric shergottite | Oued Drâa valley east of Tata, near Tissint, Morocco | more than 7 kg | Moving sphere | 1 | 0 | No longer | ||
Tolucaalso Xiquipilco | Iron | Iron meteorite, IAB-sLL | Jiquipilco area near Toluca, Mexico | about 3 metric tonnes | Full dial, Inset fragment | 3 | 0 | Yes | |
Laramidia meteoriteidentity unresolved | — | — | — | Full dial | 1 | 0 | Unknown | ||
Sahara 97003also Sahara 97003 / “Black chondrite L5”identity unresolved | — | — | — | Inset fragment | 1 | 0 | Unknown |