SpaceOne Takes off With Its Second Space-Themed Wristwatch
Introducing the Tellurium.
SpaceOne (formerly known as Argon) has premiered a brand-new timepiece, dubbed Tellurium, ahead of Watches & Wonders 2024.
The emerging watch brand whipped up a storm in the watch community middle of last year with its SpaceOne Jumping Hour debut timepiece. The watch was launched via a Kickstarter campaign and promptly raised more than its initial target within a minute after the campaign went live. As the first timepiece to be unveiled by the brand post-rebrand, the Tellurium is far from an ordinary release.
Following the success of their debut release, co-founders Guillaume Laidet and Théo Auffret knew they wanted to continue with a space theme for their second timepiece. With that in mind, they linked up with Olivier Gamiette, a distinguished French designer who’s known for his innovative vision in automotive and horology.
“A few weeks prior to meeting Olivier in person, I read his book and was amazed by it. He’s pure genius and you really can’t tell him what to do, as he’ll always know better,” Laidet tells Hypebeast in an exclusive interview. “We told him to go crazy with the design. And a few months after, Olivier came back with 15 pages of design ideas, each distinctly different from another and with different complications,” he adds.
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While the Tellurium may seem like a drastic change from the SpaceOne Jumping Hour, both of these models are parallels of the same universe. Crafted from Grade 5 titanium, the Tellurium feels surprisingly lightweight. The neo-futuristic silhouette of the watch case evokes the mood of being part-race-car-part-spaceship that looks stunningly different when viewed from disparate angles — a true amalgamation of SpaceOne’s codes and Gamiette’s alluring design language.
At the heart of the watch face is a stunning aventurine dial evoking a celestial mood to complement its tantalizing Telluric complication. Designed by Olivier Gamiette, the unique handset distinctively provides the reading of time, incorporated within a heliocentric Tellurium-type planetary wheel featuring the Sun, Earth and the Moon. The time, date and month can all be manually set via a single crown. The beating heart of this timepiece is the Swiss-made Soprod P024 H4 automatic movement that’s geared with 40 hours of power reserve.
Even though the Tellurium has a 42mm case diameter, it appears much slimmer and smaller on the wrist. This is mostly due to the actual dial itself being significantly smaller than the watch case, creating a visual illusion of a less startling proportion even on a woman’s wrist, thus opening more doors for a wide range of collectors.
Priced at $2,990 EUR (around $3,221 USD), the Tellurium is completely assembled in SpaceOne’s Paris workshop. Starting April 9, 2024, the timepiece will be offered for subscription in a 4-week window. For more information, head over to SpaceOne’s official website.
