Piaget's Mooning You

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Every year for the past few years there has been an auction of watches to benefit research into Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, the Only Watch Auction.  The idea is that a bunch of companies donate watches, unique in some way, to the auction, and they're sold, with all proceeds donated.  Sometimes the watches are truly unique, sometimes they are a variant on a production model (red dials seem to be popular as red is the color of Monaco, where the auction is held) and sometimes they are simply the first of a numbered edition.
   In 2009 Piaget's contribution was a variant on their Emperador Coussin moonphase watch.  As 2009 was the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, they modified the lunar display to be a more realistic lunar surface and added an engraving of Neil Armstrong's bootprint.  The moon on this model is made of 18kt white god that has been reticulated, a process that causes the thin surface of the material to melt, flow a bit and then crumple on itself when it cooled.  There are still traces of the oxidization that is a side effect of this on the outer edges of the moon. 

Here is the full dial
Piaget Dial.jpg

And a closeup showing more detail of the moonphase
Piaget Moon Closeup.jpg

Both photos are mine.

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