Xeric “Trappist-1 NASA Edition” Automatic Watches [Kickstarter]

The guys at Studio Neat aren’t the only ones taking to Kickstarter to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. To pay similar tribute, watch brand Xeric — which launched in 2017 with their “Trappist-1 Moonphase” line of automatic timepieces that let you wear a galaxy on your wrist — are back with a line of completely redesigned, NASA-backed variants of those original designs.

Now powered by an automatic self-winding movement rather than a battery, the Trappist-1 NASA Edition uses two orbiting, brightly glowing planets to tell the time (inner orbit = hours, outer orbit = minutes), plus a multi-armed second “hand” that creates a moving constellation map as the seconds tick by.

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All of this is contained within a domed, shatter-resistant Hesalite crystal and framed by a watch face grille designed to look like the Cupola observatory module on the ISS, the 12 “bridges” of which act as hour markers.

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Needless to say, it looks pretty sweet.

There are a lot more features and watch styles I could get into here, but you’d be better served by checking out the Kickstarter project for yourself, and backing the project at whatever level (starting from $189 and quickly going up from there) that you deem appropriate.