To the Moon and Back: RJ Arraw 6919 Series Features Patented Moon-Phase, Apollo 11 Steel
You’ve likely been hearing and reading a lot about this year’s 50th anniversary of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, and if you’re a watch aficionado (that’s why you’re here, right") that means you’ve also been reading and hearing a lot about Omega, maker of the first watch worn on the moon ? hopefully much of it directly from your trusty WatchTime team. However, there is another Swiss watch manufacturer ? much younger and of less historical renown than Omega ? that has also embraced the moon landing and its cultural significance in a very direct and personal way to produce a very noteworthy new collection of limited edition timepieces. That manufacturer is RJ, formerly known as Romain Jerome, and the watch series is the Arraw 6919 ? bearer of RJ’s first in-house movement with (appropriately) a patented moon-phase mechanism as well as an industry-first case material incorporating recovered steel from the Apollo 11 spacecraft. The RJ Arraw 6919 in Rose Gold and Titanium
The Arraw collection (pronounced “Arrow”) was established as the flagship of the revamped, streamlined RJ line, which debuted under the leadership of CEO and veteran Hublot executive Marco Tedeschi, who joined the company in 2018. According to Tedeschi, Arraw is positioned as the stage for the brand to introduce new in-house movements, a departure from the previous Romain Jerome strategy of relying on outsourced movements and concentrating instead on u...
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