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Belongs to the "Trilogy of Time" One single movement of mechanical wizardry plus a stroke of pure genius combine Ptolemy's geocentric universe with the Earth at its centre, and Copernicus' heliocentric universe with the Sun at its centre. This allows the reading of the astronomical positions of the planets in relation to the Sun and the Earth. The moon rotates around the Earth. A perpetual calendar indicating the months and the sign of the zodiac rotates once in 365.24 days at the exterior 213 Piece Movement. Automatic wind mechanical movement 11 12 '" UN-80, hand made chiselling, skeletonized swinging body, in solid gold; yellow gold case at 18 carats, back in sapphire glass waterproof down to 30 meters. The watch is equipped by a very thing basic mechanism which has the width of 3.6 millimeters, while the container of the Planetarium measures 3.25 millimeters. Metorite Edition : Planetarium Copernicus Metorite Edition only 65 samples were created. The rings of the dial were manufactured with the metorite found by the Admiral R.E. Peary at Cape York in Greenland in 1897 The 2 other "Trilogy Of Time" watches are : |