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Rolex’s yellow-gold Meteorite Daytona

What is it about meteorite that makes it so captivating as a raw material? The romance of a substance being genuinely extraterrestrial — of having undergone an interplanetary journey since the formation of our solar system before crashing into some Namibian lake or Arabian peninsula — is certainly arresting.

Aesthetically speaking, it’s the irregular geometry of the criss-crossing lines (or Widmanstätten patterns) created by the cooling of the nickel and iron interiors (a few degrees Celsius every million years or so) beneath meteorites’ ashen, knobbly surfaces. Now, Rolex have used a meteorite dial on a ceramic-bezel Daytona for the first time ever, and time’s molecular tinkering of this alien material has given a trio of new gold Daytonas their own idiosyncratic charisma. Rolex might eschew limited editions, but buy one of these and it’ll be as unique to you as your fingerprints.

Expect the Daytona fundamentals with all three: 40mm case, sub-dials at three, six and