AMIDA’s Digitrend NASA Tribute with ceramic shell

AMIDA releases the Digitrend NASA Tribute watch wrapped with a shell inspired by the ceramic tiles around the Space Shuttle’s exterior. The timepiece design builds around the visual and material language of the Space Transportation System, the space agency’s program that flew 135 missions between 1981 and 2011. Using the ceramic covers around it, the aircraft was able to survive exit from and reentry into the Earth, as the 24,000 pieces of tiles bonded to the space shuttle’s aluminum skin were able to absorb the heat.

Now, those tiles have turned into the ceramic shell of AMIDA’s Digitrend NASA Tribute watch, a homage to the space agency and its aircraft’s history. The case is built from a metallic monobloc finished in black DLC, a carbon-based surface treatment that sits on the metal in a thin, hard film.…