A new watch from design duo Toledano & Chan has been carved from a meteorite that slammed into Earth around one million years ago.
Watchmakers Toledano & Chan's Brutalist-inspired B/1M was sculpted from part of the Muonionalusta meteorite. In watchmaking, heritage matters. But while rival European horologists vaunt the traditions of their centuries-old workshops, design duo Toledano & Chan’s new creation has a longer history altogether: It was carved from a meteorite that slammed into Earth around one million years ago.
The reason may be, at least partly, price. Toledano declined to disclose how much the fragment used for the B/1M cost, but he noted that raw meteorite can sell for more, per gram, than gold. The prototype watch is estimated to fetch between US$8,000 and $16,000 when it appears at the“There are no meteorite trees, so it’s deeply expensive to work with,” Toledano said.
The iconic windows informed the asymmetric shape of Toledano & Chan’s design. And just as the Breuer Building is largely free from ornamentation, the faces of both the B/1 and the B/1M are void of numbers or symbols. Charges have been stayed against five of the eight people accused in a shootout near a Toronto recording studio last month.Montreal crime scene photographer Harold Rosenberg witnessed a lot of horror over his 30 years on the job, though nothing of the magnitude of what he captured with his lens at the Polytechnique on Dec. 6, 1989. He described the day of the Montreal massacre to CTV Quebec Bureau Chief Genevieve Beauchemin.
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