Blue Origin Crew Member Wears $325,000 Watch to All-women Space Flight

Film producer Kerianne Flynn brought a six-figure watch as her companion to Blue Origin’s first all-female space flight on Monday. She wore the Lady Arpels Planétarium timepiece from Van Cleef & Arpels’ Poetic Complications collection.

Available for 288,00 euros (approximately $325,000), the Lady Arpels Planétarium 38mm timepiece is crafted in rhodium-plated 18-karat white gold, adorned with round diamonds on the case, bezel and crown. Its deep blue aventurine dial features a miniature solar system with a pink gold sun at the center and the closest planets: Mercury in pink mother-of-pearl, Venus in green enamel, Earth in turquoise enamel, and a diamond representing the Moon, each orbiting at their actual speeds. A rhodium-plated white gold shooting star indicates the time as it sweeps across the dial.

The watch is powered by an automatic mechanical movement with a 36-hour power reserve, developed in collaboration with Christiaan Van der Klaauw, and is finished with a sapphire case back and a blue sequined alligator strap secured by a diamond-set white gold pin buckle. The style is also available with a rhodium-plated 18-karat white gold strap with round diamonds for $340,000.

Flynn, the producer of “This Changes Everything” (2018) and “Lilly” (2024), joined Lauren Sanchez, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Aisha Bowe and Amanda Nguyễn as part of Blue Origin’s first all-female space flight, which launched on Monday. They flew in the New Shepard rocket for approximately 11 minutes, reaching just above the Kármán Line (62 miles altitude) for about four minutes of weightlessness.

The crew members of the flight were wearing astronaut suits custom-made by Monse, featuring a navy-blue base adorned with patches for NASA, Blue Origin and their last names. Sanchez designed the Blue Origin suits in collaboration with Monse cofounders Fernando Garcia and Laura Kim.