A Muonionalusta band plated in 24K gold, carved by hand. Gold over meteoritic iron is a deliberate contrast: the plating is warm and uniform, the structure beneath is cold and irregular.
Material
Material: Muonionalusta iron meteorite, 24K gold plated
Construction: handmade, carved
Under the plating
Muonionalusta is an iron-nickel alloy in elemental form. Its identifying feature is an interlocking crystal lattice that formed during an extremely slow cooling in space and only becomes visible after acid etching. No laboratory has managed to reproduce it.
