B elgian watch start-up, David Rutten, has produced an 88-piece limited edition watch with a case made of meteorite. More commonly, watchmakers make wrist watches with meteorite dials, not the entire case. In addition to the case material, this watch has a unique way of telling the time: via jumping hours, jumping minutes, and dragging seconds.

The bottom of the plate and the crown are made of polished titanium, which is hypoallergenic and helps to lighten the weight to 120 grams in total.

On the back you can see the movement which is referred to as caliber DR01 but has been outsourced. The round caliber features jumping-hours and measures 33.3 mm, by approximately 8mm thick. The hand-wound movement runs at 4Hz with a 120-hours power reserve. The bridges have a (dark) ruthenium treatment and feature machine made Geneva stripes, and cut-outs to see the mechanics underneath, such as the dual power barrels and oscillator with index regulator.
The company claims the jumping hour complication, which was developed by one of their partners, takes place without the preliminary clutch of the hour disc and causes no perceptible shaking, and you can it hear it jumping. Every watch is unique and David cuts the blocks of meteorite himself before machining, in order to select the direction of the octahedron pattern. This step determines the final appearance of the watch. He also developed his own technique of polishing the meteorite in a w...