The Pallas Orrery — front view of the orrery pendant on dark background.

The Pallas Orrery

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The Pallas Orrery — front view of the orrery pendant on dark background.
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  • The Pallas Orrery — front view of the orrery pendant on dark background.
  • The Pallas Orrery — detail of the polished titanium-grade steel concentric rings.
  • The Pallas Orrery — angled view of the orrery showing depth and craft.
  • The Pallas Orrery — scale shot of the orrery pendant in hand.
  • The Pallas Orrery — pallasite pendant worn at the chest, men's heritage jewellery.
  • The Pallas Orrery — presentation case with signed certificate of authenticity.
  • The Pallas Orrery — front view of the orrery pendant on dark background.
  • The Pallas Orrery — detail of the polished titanium-grade steel concentric rings.
  • The Pallas Orrery — angled view of the orrery showing depth and craft.
  • The Pallas Orrery — scale shot of the orrery pendant in hand.
  • The Pallas Orrery — pallasite pendant worn at the chest, men's heritage jewellery.
  • The Pallas Orrery — presentation case with signed certificate of authenticity.
The Pallas Orrery

PALLAS 1772 — THE FORGED COLLECTION

The Pallas Orrery

Forged from authenticated meteorite — material over 4.5 billion years old.

  • Every piece carries a completely unique cosmic pattern
  • Limited to only 50 pieces worldwide
  • Includes free titanium chain & premium gift packaging
£255.00
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APPROXIMATE DIMENSIONS
Pendant: 42mm diameter
Includes free matching titanium chain (55cm)
Materials: Sericho pallasite, polished titanium-grade steel

THE OBJECT

The orrery was an 18th-century scientific instrument used to demonstrate the motion of celestial bodies. Each one was built by hand for the small group of natural philosophers who studied the solar system in the decades after 1772.

The Pallas Orrery returns to that form. A disc of authenticated Sericho pallasite — iron and nickel laced with translucent olivine crystals, recovered in 2016 from Habaswein, Kenya (Meteoritical Bulletin entry) — is set at the centre of two concentric rings in polished titanium-grade steel. The pallasite, formed in the molten core of a destroyed planet during the first hundred million years of the solar system, is older than the Earth itself.

Pallasites are the class of meteorite catalogued in 1772 by the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas. The Pallas Orrery is forged from the meteorite this brand is named for, set in a form that honours the science of his era.

Hand-finished by a skilled artisan. Suspended from a polished cable chain. Signed certificate of authenticity.

Worn at the chest, it carries a fragment of what existed before this world.

MATERIAL

Sericho is a pallasite — a rare class of meteorite with an iron-nickel matrix laced with translucent olivine crystals, formed in the molten core-mantle boundary of a destroyed planetary body during the first hundred million years of the solar system. Recovered in 2016 near Habaswein, Kenya.

Pallasites are the class catalogued in 1772 by the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas — the meteorite this brand is named for. The amber-gold flecks visible across the face are olivine crystals older than the Earth itself.

Classification: Sericho (PMG pallasite — main-group)
Location: Habaswein, Garissa County, Kenya
Recovered: 2016
Catalogued in the Meteoritical Bulletin Database.

THE CRAFT

Meteoritic iron is harder than terrestrial steel and three times as difficult to work. A single piece passes through the hands of one artisan from cut to finish — never split between hands, never automated.

The raw meteorite slice is cut and shaped. The face is etched in dilute nitric acid for the precise interval required to surface the Widmanstätten pattern without softening the edges. The metal is hand-polished, set, and finished against a leather wheel. Hours per piece. No two outcomes are identical because the lattice inside the meteorite is never identical.

We do not source from suppliers who cannot name the meteorite by its registered classification. We do not produce in volumes that compromise the work of the bench.

This is slow work, made by hand, in numbers small enough to remember.

PROVENANCE

Every Pallas 1772 piece is delivered with a hand-numbered certificate of authenticity, signed by the artisan responsible for it.

The certificate records the meteorite's official classification, its find location, its date of discovery, and the weight of meteoritic iron contained in your piece.

We do this for a simple reason. Counterfeit meteorite jewelry is widespread, and most buyers cannot tell the difference between a real Widmanstätten pattern and a stamped surrogate. A certificate that can be verified is the difference between a piece that holds value and a piece that does not.

The certificate is part of the object. Keep it with the piece.

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