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Diamonds are everywhere and gold is certainly plentiful, so where do you look for something truly rare? How about a meteorite that crashed into the planet more than one million years ago.
De Bethune‘s co-founder Denis Flageollet is fascinated with the ancient metal, to the extent that he experiments with iron ore reduction processes in the hope of one day replicating the crystalline structure of Meteorite.
Meteorite has been a part of De Bethune’s collection twice before; once forming the dial of the DB28 Kind of Blue Meteorite and, most spectacularly, used to form the case of the one-of-a-kind Dream Watch 5.