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From Basel. Own A Piece of The Titanic On Your Wrist!
One of the coolest watches to come out of the Basel show this week (Baselworld, is the watch and jewelry industry's largest annual trade fair) is a fabulous watch by Geneva watchmaker Romain Jerome SA.
He bills this masterpiece as his "Titanic-DNA" which uses Steel and coal from the Titanic that have been transformed into a new line of luxury wristwatches which claims to capture the essence of the legendary oceanliner which sank in 1912.
Romain Jerome holding the Titanic watch.
Romain Jerome said it purchased a piece of the hull weighing about 1.5 kg (3 pounds) that was retrieved in 1991, but declined to identify the seller. The metal has been certified as authentic by the Titanic's builders Harland and Wolff.
To make the watches, which were offered for sale for the first time in Basel for between $7,800 and $173,100, the Swiss company created an alloy using the slab from the Titanic with steel being used in a Harland and Wolff replica of the vessel.
The Titanic Watch!
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how much is it and it cool
Posted by: nickdog on August 22, 2007 3:50 PM
Ah! >=0 You should all be ashamed of yourselves! Why would you waste 75K on something that when you look at your wrist, you'll have that guilty feeling that you are trespassing on 1,500 souls' graves!? ...Not feeling guilty? YOU SHOULD!
Posted by: Nikki on June 7, 2009 1:25 PM