Description
The classically styled Bremont Hawking Limited
Edition watch, featuring a retrograde seconds hand
and grand date, contains 4 wooden discs inlaid into
the back of the watch taken from the desk at which
Hawking contemplated the mysteries of the
universe, one of his most treasured possessions.
This exquisite chronometer (none chronometer tested) also contains some
meteorite to symbolise the cosmos which can be
seen at the centre of the striking hand-finished
closed case back, as well as an etching of stars
from the night sky in Oxford, on 8th January 1942,
the date that Hawking was born. The watch’s serial
number is printed on paper from original copies of
a 1979 seminal research paper commonly referred
to as “The ‘nuts’ and ‘bolts’ of gravity”, co-written
with one of Hawking’s longest serving
collaborators, Professor Gary Gibbons, that sought
to understand the thermal properties of black
holes.
Housed within is the unique BE-33AE movement,
with 42-hour power reserve. Only 88 rose gold with black dial pieces will be made; the
numbers referencing the year in which Hawking’s
“Brief History of Time” was published, 1988.
