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Antarctique Green Meteor

WIDMANSTÄTTEN BEAUTY

The new Antarctique Green Meteor is featuring an extraordinary green dial made out of an iron-nickel alloy meteorite and its very distinctive crystal patterns, sometimes called Widmanstätten patterns. They occur from extremely slow cooling from a molten state in the vacuum of space when the solar system first formed. Once in the solid state, the slow cooling then allows the solid solution to precipitate a separate phase that grows within the crystal lattice, which form at very specific angles that are determined by the lattice. In meteors, these interstitial defects can grow large enough to fill the entire crystal with needle or ribbon-like structures easily visible to the naked eye, almost entirely consuming the original lattice. Yet these patterns are fully revealing the outers space beauty when the meteor is cut and washed with acid.