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Blastoff For The Space-Going Barrelhand Monolith — A Next-Generation Mission-Grade Space Watch

Fratello Watches – The Magazine Dedicated To Luxury Watches·Lex Stolk·3 days ago
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Are you outfitted for space travel? There are tool watches, and then there are watches that make conventional tool watches look almost quaint. The Barrelhand Monolith belongs in the latter category. This timepiece took six years to develop. Aerospace engineering, additive manufacturing, and advanced materials science were used to create not simply a “space-inspired” watch but an actual instrument for modern spaceflight. The Monolith meets ISO aerospace standards, was constructed in accordance with NASA material guidance, and withstood EVA/IVA testing protocols. This watch’s spec list tells you you’re dealing with mission-grade hardware and nothing less. Fascinating stuff, right? Two years ago, I wrote about the conception and first phases of the Barrelhand Monolith . In that article, I wrote that the case back — or the chassis’s Memory Disk, as Barrelhand calls it— had already made it to the Moon. And it’s still there. It traveled there on board the Nova-C lunar lander Odysseus, or “Odie” for short.…

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