A few months ago, I got a message from my friend Andrea Furlan, one of the two co-founders of the brand Furlan Marri, that basically said: “I bought a meteorite.” That’s a wild way to start a message. The meteorite in question was a portion of the Muonionalusta meteorite, an iron meteorite formed within the core of a differentiated asteroid over 4.5 billion years ago. Chunks of the meteorite, which fell around 1 million years ago west of the border between Sweden and Finland, are spread across museums and collections around the world. This is the first and only iron meteorite with stishovite, a material that can only form during an impact event, and is classified as an octahedrite meteorite (thus the name for the watch). The prevailing theory is that the parent asteroid was struck by cosmic rays, which caused it to break apart violently. And now, like the famed Gibeon meteorite, it’s found its way to a watch dial to celebrate the brand’s 5th Anniversary.
Mark Kauzlarich
2026-04-10 13:00:00