Iron meteorite
Henbury
An Australian iron meteorite with a bright Widmanstätten pattern. Large, structurally sound dial blanks are difficult to obtain.
The specimen
- Classification
- Iron meteorite, IIIAB
- Event
- impact-forming fall; later find
- Where
- Henbury crater field, Northern Territory, Australia
- When it fell
- roughly 4,700 years ago
- Found
- 1931
- Known mass
- about 2 metric tonnes
- Still cut for dials
- No longer (as of 2026-08-21)
Known numbered editions are sold out/historical; no ongoing production verified.
Watches
Search the catalog for Henbury dials
- Ludovic Ballouard Henbury EditionFull dial
Upside Down
No commercial reference was published for this model.
full meteorite dial
Source - Romain Gauthier Prestige HMS Stainless SteelFull dial
Prestige
MON00027
Solid 0.8 mm Henbury octahedrite plate, nitric-acid etched, anti-corrosion coating only.
Source - Romain Gauthier Prestige HMS Stainless Steel MeteoriteFull dial
Prestige HMS
MON00027
full meteorite dial
Source
Sources
- A Collected Man — MON00027exact reference and full Henbury dial
- arxiv.org — Henbury impact chronology study contextimpact site and Aboriginal oral-history chronology
- Meteoritical Bulletin Database — Henburyofficial class, Australia, 1931 and 2 t mass
- watchgecko.com — Romain Gauthier interviewHenbury sourcing and dial manufacture