Van Cleef & Arpels Gives You the Stars…!
Actually, its only planets, but I think it will do…
In what has to be the ultimate star-geek astronomer fashion
accessory, French jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels
brings us the Midnight
Planétarium watch. Literally the
solar system on your wrist…!
That’s heavy!
What you get is a timepiece showing six of the planets
rotating around the sun, in real time. With
the sun centered on the dial, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn
rotate at their actual speed and relative positions on six separate discs. The craftsmanship involved is quite frankly
insane!
Not to worry, with all this astronomical wizardry going on,
you can still tell the earthly time. The
outermost ring of the dial has a gold shooting star that passes along a 24-hour
scale. Go figure…