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ANTOINE PREZIUSO AND HIS TIMELESS LOVE STORY WITH METEORITES
A Meteorite Watch: The Art of Wearing a Fragment of a Star.
At Antoine Preziuso Geneva, meteorite is not just a stylistic effect: it is a living material, coming from the cosmos, shaped by time and fire over billions of years. A meteorite watch is more than a timepiece: it is a piece of the universe, captured on your wrist.
A Material Born Before Earth, Shaped by Infinity.
The meteorites used by the House come from asteroids formed long before our planet.Composed mainly of iron and nickel, they reveal a natural pattern called Widmanstätten structures, which cannot be reproduced artificially. These geometric lines are the cosmic signature of each piece: no two meteorite watches are alike.
Each creation is a dialogue between the cosmos, technique and emotion
The Unique Expertise of Antoine Preziuso Geneva. One of the few watchmakers in the world to master meteorite. Meteorite is a demanding, capricious, almost unpredictable material. However, for over 30 years, Antoine and Florian Preziuso have learned to understand, respect and enhance it. The Maison was one of the first to create: unique pieces crafted entirely from meteorite, watches combining meteorite and fine jewellery and special commissions for collectors. This is a skill that few watchmakers have mastered today.
Why Choose a Meteorite Watch? Its absolute uniqueness: no pattern is ever repeated. Its extreme rarity: each fragment is limited by nature. Its emotional value: wearing a fragment of a star. Its living material: shaped over billions of years. Its raw yet poetic elegance: a meteorite watch is a work of art, a piece of the sky, an intimate experience.
A meteorite watch is never reproduced. It is chosen, crafted, worn. Like a fragment of eternity.
From Cosmic Stone to Fine Watchmaking: A Complex Manufacturing Process
Every meteorite has its own inimitable composition and character: here’s a close-up look at the two “favourites” used by Antoine Preziuso.
The Gibeon & Muonionalusta Meteorites: Two Treasures from Space
Location: Great Namaqualand, Namibia, Africa. Latitude 25 degrees 20 minutes South, Longitude 18 degrees East.
Structural Class: Fine octahedrite, Of class, Widmanstatten bandwidth 0.3 ±0.5 mm.
Time of Fall/Discovery: Believed to have fallen in prehistoric times. The Gibeon Meteorite was first reported by Capt. J.E. Alexander in 1838.
Chemical composition: mostly ferrous iron (around 90%), along small quantities of cobalt, phosphorous and Germanium.
Only a very few individual pieces of Munionalusta have been found over the past 100 years in the region called with the same name in Lapland in the North of Sweden, 140 km north of the Arctic Circle. It is both rare and hard to locate because it is scattered among a number of glacier sediments.
Location: Muonionalusta, Sweden, Europe. Latitude 67degrees 54 minutes North, Longitude 23 degrees 34 East
Structural Class: Fine IV A class octahedrite, Widmanstatten bandwidth: 0.3 mm
Time of fall/discovery: Unknown fall, estimated at more than 800,000 years ago,
first found by children in 1906
Chemical composition: Muonionalusta meteorite is mainly composed of ferrous iron.
