Louis Moinet SpaceWalker

“I was heading out into the unknown; nobody in the world could tell me what I would find there. [...] The thing that struck me the most was the silence: utter silence such as I had never witnessed on Earth [...]. The sky was pitch black, yet at the same time it shone like the Sun... The Earth was small, light blue, and so achingly alone – our home, to be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word ‘round’ meant until I saw Earth from space.” The tourbillon portrays Leonov’s spaceship; the cosmonaut is represented by a diamond that orbits the tourbillon, and the depth of the cosmos by a backdrop in aventurine on which the starred sky and a nebula have been painted (using a technique which is a closely guarded secret).