To my mind, Bulova’s Archive Series is where the fun is, for the brand. One of the models within this collection family, the Lunar Pilot Chronograph, has had some half a dozen successful model variants to date, and now it’s the turn of meteorite to make its appearance in this model.

Limited to 5,000 pieces, the new Lunar Pilot Meteorite Chronograph comes in a 43.5mm sand-blasted grade 5 titanium and stainless steel case with water resistance of 50m.

With a stamped tachymeter scale on a black dial, the centre of the two-tone dial is a bit of Muonionalusta meteorite and yes, you are correct if you think that the pattern is familiar – it’s the Widmanstätten patterns found in the octahedrite iron meteorites (the most common class of iron meteorites) and some pallasites (a class of stony–iron meteorite). They consist of fine interleaving of kamacite (an alloy of iron and nickel found on earth only in meteorites) and taenite (an alloy of iron and nickel found mosty in iron meteorites) bands, between which are often a mix of kamacite and taenite called plessite can be found. You will also remember that because they are patterned, it means that each dial is different. The hands and markers have Super-LumiNova.

As it says on the dial, inside is the same Japanese quartz Bulova Calibre NP20 with proprietary high-performance quartz technology beating at 262 kHz. The Bulova UHF quartz movements feature sweeping seconds hands.

On the case back is an engraving depicting an astronaut on the moon, along with its limitation number.

Coming on a black NATO-style strap, the Meteorite Limited Edition Lunar Pilot comes with a storybook in commemorative packaging, and has an RRP of USD1,495.

[Photo credit: Bulova]

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